Given name & surname
Pari
“a fairylike young girl”
Pari is used as a given name and a surname. One Persian interpretation is “a fairylike young girl.”
Original Persianپری
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Persian interpretation is “a fairylike young girl.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Persian.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1960. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Pari through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 812
- 0 boys · 812 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 44 babies
- 2025
- 27
- #4,959 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −28%
- Easing
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 27 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 4,959 among girls’ names. Average annual use for girls was 27.8% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for girls was 44 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,334 as a first name in 2020; 460 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Pari’s family of names
Pari has a related form in Parisa. Pari has a related form in Parea. Pari has a related form in Paree.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Parisavariant
- Pareevariant
- Parievariant
- Pareavariant
- Paryhanvariant
- Parehanvariant
- Parihanvariant
- Pareyvariant
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Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Pari
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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