Paralee
Paralee is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 486th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192039 births
- Best rank
- #486in 1881
- Since 1880
- 1,215people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,215 girls have been named Paralee in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 39 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 39 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1920, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Paralee | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 106 | |
| 1890s | 105 | |
| 1900s | 133 | |
| 1910s | 246 | |
| 1920s | 256 | |
| 1930s | 149 | |
| 1940s | 118 | |
| 1950s | 79 | |
| 1960s | 18 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Paralee was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Paralee
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Sudiepeak 1916
- Diciepeak 1920
- Malvinapeak 1917
- Mattiepeak 1920
- Sophroniapeak 1900
- Lydapeak 1916
- Tildapeak 1924
- Idapeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.