Parker

Parker is the 58th most common surname in the United States, shared by 323,880 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 923.

By the numbers

People: 323,880
Rank: 58th
How common: 1 in 923
Per 100,000: 108.4

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.4%
Black, not Hispanic 24.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%

Notable people called Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker (born 1965)American actress
Charlie Parker (1920–1955)American jazz saxophonist
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Alan Parker (1944–2020)British filmmaker
Mary-Louise Parker (born 1964)American actress
Tony Parker (born 1982)French basketball player
Trey Parker (born 1969)American actor, animator and filmmaker
Eleanor Parker (1922–2013)American actress

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

Surnames like Parker

Also a first name

Parker has been given to 163,836 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 2014. 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.