Parisa
Fewer than two dozen women in Poland carry it: 21 in all. The name means "like a fairy", and no newborn has been given it since 2000.
Parisa Pronunciation
Parisa is pronounced pah-REE-sah (/paˈrisa/).
What Parisa means
Where Parisa comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Parisa comes from Persian. The root is pari, the old word for a fairy, and the name means like a fairy.
In classical Persian poetry a pari is a winged spirit of great beauty, and the poets of the Shahnameh used the word for women whose looks seemed otherworldly. The same root reached Europe long ago. English and French borrowed it as peri, the fairy of Eastern tales, so a distant cousin of Parisa already lived in Western books. In Iran the name stays common, and the classical singer Fatemeh Vaezi has performed under the name Parisa for decades.
A Polish reader finds no imieniny for Parisa in the church calendar. In a school register it stands among names like Zofia and Lena, foreign by sound and easy to explain: Parisa, from pari, like a fairy.
How many people are named Parisa
1 in 1073516 women in Poland is named Parisa. 21 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #9696 among female names.
Parisa as a middle name
Parisa is a first name for 21 women in Poland and a middle name for another 3, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5162nd, between Paraskewia (3) and Parvati (3).
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#5160 Paraskevi3
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#5161 Paraskewia3
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#5162 Parisa3
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#5163 Parvati3
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#5164 Parveen3