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). Originally a masculine name; in the United States the use as a feminine name surpassed male use after 2000. A top-300 US baby name for girls from 2003 to 2009. 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 Jackson (born 1998) — daughter of Michael Jackson; American singer and model. Paris Geller — Gilmore Girls* (2000-2007).
Subject of Hilton's memoir Paris: The Memoir (2023).
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.