Given name & surname · also Italian
Parma
Parma is a surname from Italian, ultimately from Etruscan. It is used in English and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Parma comes from Italian, and ultimately from Etruscan.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1915. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Parma through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 33
- 0 boys · 33 girls
- Most popular year
- 1922
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1956. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 1922. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 124 as a first name in 2020; 734 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.
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