Paris is from the Greek Páris — the Trojan prince of Homer's Iliad whose abduction of Helen sparked the Trojan War. The French capital city Paris derives separately from the Celtic-Gallic Parisii tribe (3rd c. BCE). Paris Hilton (born 1981) — American media personality and businesswoman; great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton; her 2003 reality show The Simple Life with Nicole Richie helped pioneer modern celebrity reality TV; her 2024 testimony before the US Senate Finance Committee on the troubled-teen industry was a watershed moment for survivor advocacy. Paris Geller — Gilmore Girls (2000-2007).
Subject of Hilton's memoir Paris: The Memoir (2023).
Paris does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Paris reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.