Parker
About 163,836 American babies have been named Parker since 1880, most of them around 2014. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 102nd. About 159,000 Parkers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 12.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Parker boys named Parker
Girls and boys called Parker
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 32,895 girls and 130,941 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 2,536 to 3,477.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 115 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 163,836
- Estimated living today
- 159,000
- Median age today
- 12
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 73rd
- Rank in 2025
- 102nd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 32,895 / 130,941
How old the living Parkers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 163,836 babies given the name since 1880, about 159,000 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 109,000 of them are children and 770 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2013 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Parkers
- Parker Posey (born 1968)American actress
- Parker Young (born 1988)American actor
- Parker Stevenson (born 1952)American actor
- Phillip Parker King (1793–1856)British Royal Navy officer and early explorer of the Australian and Patagonian coasts
- Parker Griffith (born 1942)American politician
- Parker Sawyers (born 1984)American actor
- William Parker Foulke (1816–1865)American paleontologist
- Parker McKenna Posey (born 1995)American actress
People named Parker with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Parker is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Parker is most concentrated in Utah (3.2×), Idaho (2.2×), Nevada (2.2×), New Hampshire (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular boys’ names the year Parker peaked:
Parker elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Parker | 4,957 | 121st |
| Scotland boys | Parker | 554 | 98th |
| England and Wales girls | Parker | 371 | 776th |
| Ireland boys | Parker | 237 | 216th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Parker | 220 | 117th |
| Scotland girls | Parker | 55 | 359th |
| New Zealand boys | Parker | 49 | 100th |
| France boys | Parker | 45 | 2,884th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Parker | 6 | 397th |
| Ireland girls | Parker | 3 | 896th |
| Poland boys | Parker | 2 birth registrations | 729th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Parker among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Parker | — | 9 |
| Finland girls | Parker | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Parker against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.