The Parikh surname

In the 2010 U.S. Census, 7,506 people carried this name — #4,724 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 39,400 people counted. That is up 47% from 5,113 in 2000.

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Where the name comes from

The origin of the Parikh surname

Transliteration of Gujarati પરીખ (parīkh).

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Parikh» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.

In Belgium’s population register

At least 32 people named Parikh live in Belgium.

Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Antwerp.

Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.

Where they live today

Antwerp 32

Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.

In print

Parikh in American newspapers,
1916–1929.

Newspaper page from The Guernsey Gazette carrying the name Parikh
The Guernsey Gazette 1927-12-30
Newspaper page from The Chickasha Daily Express carrying the name Parikh
The Chickasha Daily Express 1916-12-29
Newspaper page from The Washington Daily News carrying the name Parikh
The Washington Daily News 1929-05-11

Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 334 pages in all carry the name.

Who carried it

People named Parikh,
with a public archive behind them.

  • Geeta Parikh 1929–2012 · writer
  • Geeta Parikh 1929–2012 · writer
  • Dilip Parikh 1937–2019 · politician
  • Dilip Parikh 1937–2019 · politician
  • Dilip Parikh 1937–2019 · politician

Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.

In the public record

People named Parikh,
in the records of the United States.

Soldiers, farmers, migrants and neighbours who carried the name and left a trace in public archives. Everyone shown here died long ago or was born more than a century ago.

United States5 records

5 records of the Parikh name in the United States U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955
  1. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Jekishan R. Parikh

    Born 1922 in Dhargdhra, India. Entered the United States at San Francisco in 1948. Listed in the U.S. alien registration index, 1940–1955.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)
  2. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Kanchanlal C. Parikh

    Born 1919 in India. Registered as a foreign national in Cambridge, Massachusetts, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)
  3. The receipt card sent under the U.S. Alien Registration Act of 1940
    Example: U.S. alien registration card, 1940s
    Alien registration Ramesh C. Parikh

    Born 1923 in India. Registered as a foreign national in Ann Arbor, Michigan, under the Alien Registration Act of 1940.

    U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain)

Showing 3 of 5 records for Parikh in the United States.

Counts: U.S. National Archives, Flexoline Index Data File (public domain). Example pages, not the records of the people shown: Alien Registration Receipt Card, Form AR-3, photo by Bobjgalindo via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0).

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