Parkes

3,065 people in the United States were counted with the surname Parkes in the 2020 census, making it the 10,032nd most common in the country. That is about one person in 97,500.

By the numbers

People: 3,065
Rank: 10,032nd
How common: 1 in 97,500
Per 100,000: 1.0

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 71.6%
Black, not Hispanic 20.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.2%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Parkes

Mike Parkes (1931–1977)English racing driver
Alexander Parkes (1813–1890)metallurgist and inventor of the early plastic Parkesine
Henry Parkes (1815–1896)Australian statesman and politician
Broc Parkes (born 1981)Australian motorcycle racer
Bessie Rayner Parkes (1829–1925)British writer, editor
Gregory Parkes (born 1964)Roman Catholic bishop
Phil Parkes (born 1950)English footballer
Nii Ayikwei Parkes (born 1974)British writer

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

Surnames like Parkes

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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.