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Parlee
How to Pronounce Parlee
Pronounced PAR-lee /ΛpΙr.li/Medium
Meaning: Parlee reads as a variant of Pearlie, a pet form of Pearl from the Latin for the gem, or of Parley; it fits the warm -ee names common in the early twentieth-century South.Low
Popularity in the U.S. Β· SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880βpresent). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Parlee is a homespun early twentieth-century name, read as a variant of Pearlie, from Pearl, or of Parley. Such -ee names were common in the American South, and it appeared for girls only faintly, around 1918.
It was never common, given to only about twenty girls a year at most, and it had disappeared by around 1940. A girl named Parlee then would be a great-grandmother now. It reads as a tender antique rather than a name coming back.
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What does the name Parlee mean?
It is a variant of Pearlie, a pet form of Pearl, the gem, or of Parley.
How do you pronounce Parlee?
It is said PAR-lee /ΛpΙr.li/, two syllables with the stress on the first.
Is Parlee a boy or girl name?
Parlee is used as a girls name.
How popular is Parlee?
It has always been very rare, given to only about twenty girls a year at its peak in the nineteen-tens.