This surname is derived from a geographical locality. 'of Paris.' A common entry in early registers. Of course Parish is inextricably mixed up with it.

Robyn de Paris, Lincolnshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Robert de Paris, London, ibid.

Ralph de Paris, Kent, ibid.

Roger de Paris, London, 20 Edward I.

Simon de Pan's, London, 20 Edward I: Placita de Quo Warranto, temp. Edward I-III.

Johannes de Parys, 1379: Poll Tax of Yorkshire.

John Parys, Somerset, 1 Edward III: Kirby's Quest.

1526-7. John Paris and Elena Hevercroft: Marriage Lic. (London).

1743. Married — Thomas Paris and Ann Sommons: St. George, Hanover Square.

Walter de Paris witnessed a charter by Florentius, bishop elect of Glasgow, 1202-07 (LCD., p. 236). John de Parys of Ayrshire rendered homage, 1296 (Blair, II, p. 199). William de Perys, a charter witness, 1362, may be the William de Perys who witnessed a deed of sale in Aberdeen, 1383 (REA,, I, p. 105; II, p. 284). Johnne of Paris was declared innocent of part in the detention of King James in in Edinbergh Castle, 1482 (Lennox, II, p. 123), and Edwerd Pariss had a remission for his share in burning the toun of Dunbretane, 1489 (APS., XII, p. 34; Lennox, II, p. 133). John of Pares, a charter witness at Dunbertane, 1506 (Lennox, II, p. 182). John Paris was witness in Glasgow, 1513 (Ros, 35), and Elspet Paris in West Lothian was guilty of witchcraft, 1624 (RPC., XIII, p. 422). William Peiris, burgess of Haddington, 1611 (Inpuis., 8467), and James Peires, burgess of Linlithgow, 1676 (ibid., 5924), Margaret Parise was married in Edinburgh, 1637 (Edinb. Marr.), and Thomas Pareis was heir of James Stevinstone in Old Listoun, 1686 (Inquis., 6702). The frequency of 'de Paris,' or 'de Pairs and 'de Parisiis' as English surnames in the thirteenth century, especially in Lincolnshire (Madden, pref. to Matthew Paris, Hist., III) has led Sir J. H. Ramsay (Foundations of England, I, p. 61) to the ingenious inference that the name of the Parisii, who lived near the mouth of the Humber, persisted as that of a district in N. Lincolnshire till that late period. Peiris 1598.

1 for Paris, q.v.

2 Parry’s (Son): v. Parry2.

The French metropolis. Many families so named must have settled in England. One Francis Parris, a Protestant refugee from Dieppe, settled at Rye in 1572. Harl. MS. 15. 70. The surname is common in Sussex. In H.R. there are many individuals called De Paris, and De Parys.

Local. The metropolis of France, on the Seine, anciently called "Lutetia Parisiorum,"Lutum, mud, from its situation in a marshy place. A place where the Pars or Peers met in Congress. Paro, to make civil or military arrangements; Paries, a wall, a walled town; Peri, an island.