Parks

At the 2020 census, 84,327 Americans bore the surname Parks — 368th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 3,545.

By the numbers

People: 84,327
Rank: 368th
How common: 1 in 3,545
Per 100,000: 28.2

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 66.8%
Black, not Hispanic 24.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Parks

Rosa Parks (1913–2005)civil rights activist
Gordon Parks (1912–2006)American photographer, musician, writer and film director
Michael Parks (1940–2017)American actor
Larry Parks (1914–1975)American stage and movie actor
Winston Parks (born 1981)Costa Rican footballer
Alycia Parks (born 2000)American tennis player
Van Dyke Parks (born 1941)American musician, songwriter, arranger, and record producer
Taylor Parks (born 1993)American actress and singer

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

Surnames like Parks

Also a first name

Parks has been given to 1,485 American babies as a first name since 1892, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

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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.