Girl or boy · Old French, through English
Parker
Say it: PAR-ker
Meaning
From an English occupational surname for a park-keeper or gamekeeper, from Old French parquier.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A surname name used for boys and, increasingly since the 2000s, for girls.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 132,921 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 2014, about 1 in 336 boys
- 5,928 babies in 2020
Through the ages
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Where this comes from
- English poll taxes and lay subsidy rolls (13th and 14th centuries)
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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