Parsley
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/pʰɑɹsʎi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Parsley is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- GBUnited Kingdom
- CACanada
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
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Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Parsley is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, a different form of Parslow.
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In English, from the herb name
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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)
- Norman Parsleyb. 1923GBEnglish footballer (1923-1993)
- Charlie Parsleyb. 1925USProfessional basketball player
- Cliff Parsleyb. 1954USAmerican football player
- Rod Parsleyb. 1957USAmerican pastor
- Neil Parsleyb. 1966GBEnglish footballer and manager (born 1966)
- Ambrosia Parsleyb. 1971USAmerican musician
- Ian Parsleyb. 1977GBNorthern Ireland politician, writer and activist (born 1977)
- Laura M Parsleyresearcher
- Ross ParsleyUSAmerican pastor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 14 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 6.4K | #5,049 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 6.3K | #5,508 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 5.9K | #5,680 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 1.1K | #6,340 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #280,996 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #370,870 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 1 | #165,436 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #243,381 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1 | #26,955 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Parsley mean, and where does it come from?
- A bright green, biennial herb, Petroselinum crispum, having many cultivars. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Parsley?
- A machine transcription gives /pʰɑɹsʎi/ (IPA) for English.
- What are other forms of the name Parsley?
- In the etymology graph, Петрушка is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Parsley have the most bearers?
- Parsley is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Parsley”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.