Paris
In Poland it splits almost evenly between women and men, one of the few names that reads as truly unisex here. Only about 65 people carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Paris Pronunciation
Paris is pronounced PAH-rees (/ˈparis/).
What Paris means
Where Paris comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Paris comes from Greek, and its oldest layer is uncertain. In Homer's Iliad the name belongs to the Trojan prince who carried off Helen, a figure also called Alexandros. Scholars link the short sense "wrestler" to the young man's herding years on Mount Ida, though that meaning stays doubtful. The root looks pre-Greek, older than the tales built on top of it.
The name later grew an English life of its own. Shakespeare gave "Paris" to a suitor in Romeo and Juliet, County Paris, who courts Juliet and dies at her tomb. English readers met the name there long before it belonged to actual children.
That doubtful "wrestler" is a gloss added by later hands, not the origin. Short. Today the name reads as English to many Polish parents, though its bones are Greek. On a class register in Kraków, "Paris" would sit among Polish forms with no diminutive of its own. What travels with it is the Trojan prince and the plain, unproven meaning: wrestler.
How many people are named Paris
1 in 609293 women in Poland is named Paris. 65 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4543 among female names.
Paris's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Paris as a middle name
Paris is a first name for 65 women in Poland and a middle name for another 43, a 60/40 split, almost evenly. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1054th, between Octavia (43) and Rosie (43).
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#1052 Ngozi43
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#1053 Octavia43
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#1054 Paris43
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#1055 Rosie43
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#1056 Saskia43