# Paris (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/paris/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

An English habitational surname from Old French for someone from Paris.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 17,707 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,033 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 17,436 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.3% (16,813 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | /ˈpæɹɪs/, 2 syllables |
| Variant spellings | Paree, Parish, Parris, Parrish, Pares, Parise, Pariset, Parez, Paresse, Parisot |

## Etymology

From Middle English Parys, Paris, from Old French Paris, from the Late Latin name of an earlier settlement, Lutetia Parisiorum (“Lutetia of the Parisii”), from Latin Parīsiī, a Gaulish tribe, from Transalpine Gaulish *parios (“cauldron”), from Proto-Celtic *kʷaryos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷer-. Doublet of Parizh.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Paris in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 75% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 12% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 8.3% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 1.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.6% |
| Two or more races | 2.2% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Paris in the United States.

## People named Paris

- Jerry Paris, American actor and director (1925-1986)
- Victoria Paris, American pornographic actress (1960-2021)
- Courtney Paris, American basketball player (born 1987)
- Bob Paris, American-Canadian writer,actor, civil rights activist and retired pro athlete
- Twila Paris, American songwriter and singer

## Similar surnames

Parris, Parisi, Parise, Paras, Preiss, Pariseau, Pearse, Parras, Pries, Paraiso, Park, Parks.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.