Parsi

loc · Latin script

Meaning: follower of Zoroastrianism; Iranian

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Parsi is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.

rarermore common
  • INIndia
  • PKPakistan

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

India (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
74 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ParsiLatin(measured from records)
పరసTelugu(measured from records)

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

follower of Zoroastrianism; Iranian

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Parsi counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Parsi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India—433Parsi65
PK Pakistan——Parsi4
US United States—24K—74
ES Spain—5.2K—1
FR France—2.8K—1
AR Argentina—2.5K——

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Parsi is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Pārsī

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pārsī

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pārsī

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Parsi is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, dialect

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • In Finnish, beam (long, usually round piece of timber for hanging goods for storage, historically specifically one used to dry sheaves of grain)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, first-person singular perfect active indicative of parcō (ante-Classical or post-Classical)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, A member of the larger of the two Zoroastrian communities of the Indian subcontinent.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In vot, beam (for hanging things for drying or storage)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Angelo Parsi, b. 1800Jean Parsi, b. 1905Vittorio Emanuele Parsi, b. 1961Trita Parsi, b. 1974Arsham Parsi, b. 1980

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Parsi
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—433#10,253
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020397#55,761
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010292#67,519
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—254#11,934
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000210#83,301
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national)—24—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199113—
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Parsi mean, and where does it come from?
follower of Zoroastrianism; Iranian Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Parsi have the most bearers?
Parsi is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled parsi.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Parsi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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