American Family Name Origins:
Parisien
Frequency: (160)
(number of times this surname appears in a sample database of 88.7 million names, representing one third of the 1997 US population)
French: variant of Paris 2, from the adjectival form.
GIVEN NAMES: French 12%. Germaine, Gilles, Gillis, Jean-Pierre, Yves.
See the Key to the Dictionary or consult the General Introduction for further explanation.
