Popularity: The name Paris ranked 830th in popularity for males of all ages in a sample of 2000-2003 Social Security Administration statistics and 1060th in popularity for males of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.

Though this name appears on the 1990 U.S. Census lists, it is used by only a small percentage of the general population.

Narrative: In his Iliad, the ancient Greek poet Homer records that the first Paris was a prince of Troy. Chosen to judge a divine beauty contest, he fixed it after accepting the hand of the beautiful Helen as a bribe. She was inconveniently married to a Greek king, who gathered his allies to retrieve her by force. So started the legendary Trojan War.

Paris has also been used in English as a surname for immigrants from the capital of France. That city was named after the Gallic tribe that founded it, the Parisii.

The only shared feature of the Greek and Gallic sources of these two identical names is that the meanings of both have been lost.

Popularity: The name Paris ranked 431st in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of 2000-2003 Social Security Administration statistics and 2006th in popularity for females of all ages in a sample of the 1990 US Census.

Though this name appears on the 1990 U.S. Census lists, it is used by only a small percentage of the general population.

Narrative: In his Iliad, the ancient Greek poet Homer records that the first Paris was a prince of Troy. Chosen to judge a divine beauty contest, he fixed it after accepting the hand of the beautiful Helen as a bribe. She was inconveniently married to a Greek king, who gathered his allies to retrieve her by force. So started the legendary Trojan War.

Paris has also been used in English as a surname for immigrants from the capital of France. That city was named after the Gallic tribe that founded it, the Parisii.

The only shared feature of the Greek and Gallic sources of these two identical names is that the meanings of both have been lost.