Parker

Girl's name · #106 in the US (2025) · Trending

40% girls · 60% boys — About 60% of babies named Parker in recent years have been boys. Parker →

Popularity over time

Parker ranked #106 in 2025, with about 2,500 girls given the name last year. Roughly 33,000 have carried it since 1970.

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 50 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

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#350 in New Zealand (2025) · #382 in Scotland (2025) · #1,495 in England & Wales (2025) · #214 in Canada (2024).

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)

Among 227 notable people named Parker:

Sports figures appear 2.2× more often than among typical names — e.g. Parker Valby, American athlete.

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