Parker

Meaning: Park keeper or gamekeeper
Origin: Old English

Boy's name · #102 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave

60% boys · 40% girls — Parker is also given to girls: 2,536 in 2025, about 40% in recent years. Parker →

Popularity over time

Parker's best rank, #72, came in 2015; it has settled back to #102 today. Roughly 131,000 boys have been named Parker since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#70 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #75 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #134 in New Zealand (2025) · #176 in England & Wales (2025) · #184 in N. Ireland (2025) · #202 in Scotland (2025) · #303 in Ireland (2025) · #120 in Canada (2024).

Famous Parkers

Parker Young — American actor
Parker Stevenson — American actor
Parker Sawyers — American actor
Parker Griffith — American politician
Parker Croft — American actor

As a surname

It is also an American family name — about 336,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.

Sarah Jessica Parker — American actress (born 1965)
Charlie Parker — American jazz saxophonist (1920–1955)
Dorothy Parker — American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893–1967)

In stories & tradition

Parker Pyne — Parker Pyne Investigates (book)
Parker — Parker (book series)
Parker Luciani — Resident Evil: Revelations (video game)

What Parkers become

Among 227 notable people named Parker:

Sports figures appear 2.2× more often than among typical names — e.g. Parker Jackson-Cartwright, American basketball player.

Similar names: Colton · Paxton · Landon · Tucker · Easton · Maxwell

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