Park

Park is the 274th most common surname in the United States, shared by 111,265 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 2,686.

By the numbers

People: 111,265
Rank: 274th
How common: 1 in 2,686
Per 100,000: 37.2

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Park described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 73.6%
White, not Hispanic 21.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino 1.4%
Black, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Park

Park Geun-hye (born 1952)President of South Korea from 2013 to 2017
Park Chung-hee (1917–1979)3rd President of the Republic of Korea
Park Ji-Sung (born 1981)South Korean association football player
Park Chan-yeol (born 1992)South Korean rapper, singer, actor, model, mc, composer, producer, songwriter.
Mungo Park (1771–1806)Scottish naturalist and explorer of the African continent
Park Hon-young (1900–1956)North Korean politician
Park Chan-wook (born 1963)South Korean filmmaker
Park Jung-yang (1872–1959)Korean Joseon dynasty and Japanese-ruled Korean bureaucrat, politician, liberalism and social activists

People named Park with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Park

Also a first name

Park has been given to 1,637 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1923. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.