# Parker (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/parker/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | /ˈpɑɹkɚ/, 2 syllables |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 163,836 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 130,941 / 32,895 (20% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 5,328, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 873 | 366 |
| 2012 | 1,024 | 317 |
| 2013 | 1,202 | 267 |
| 2014 | 1,406 | 233 |
| 2015 | 1,447 | 228 |
| 2016 | 1,482 | 217 |
| 2017 | 1,494 | 207 |
| 2018 | 1,764 | 162 |
| 2019 | 1,977 | 143 |
| 2020 | 2,148 | 128 |
| 2021 | 2,420 | 115 |
| 2022 | 2,409 | 115 |
| 2023 | 2,296 | 122 |
| 2024 | 2,525 | 104 |
| 2025 | 2,536 | 106 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 5,296 | 79 |
| 2012 | 5,370 | 81 |
| 2013 | 5,672 | 74 |
| 2014 | 5,720 | 73 |
| 2015 | 5,418 | 72 |
| 2016 | 4,730 | 87 |
| 2017 | 4,382 | 90 |
| 2018 | 4,007 | 96 |
| 2019 | 3,907 | 98 |
| 2020 | 3,814 | 95 |
| 2021 | 3,845 | 93 |
| 2022 | 3,861 | 94 |
| 2023 | 3,807 | 91 |
| 2024 | 3,616 | 97 |
| 2025 | 3,477 | 102 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 4 | 4,764 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,969 |
| 2013 | 21 | 1,484 |
| 2014 | 10 | 2,464 |
| 2015 | 27 | 1,240 |
| 2016 | 17 | 1,749 |
| 2017 | 24 | 1,371 |
| 2018 | 31 | 1,111 |
| 2019 | 32 | 1,063 |
| 2020 | 45 | 807 |
| 2021 | 38 | 918 |
| 2022 | 25 | 1,282 |
| 2023 | 17 | 1,705 |
| 2024 | 48 | 776 |
| 2025 | 21 | 1,454 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 51 | 647 |
| 2012 | 93 | 425 |
| 2013 | 116 | 354 |
| 2014 | 308 | 181 |
| 2015 | 397 | 142 |
| 2016 | 407 | 142 |
| 2017 | 413 | 140 |
| 2018 | 417 | 136 |
| 2019 | 467 | 121 |
| 2020 | 409 | 136 |
| 2021 | 395 | 143 |
| 2022 | 462 | 121 |
| 2023 | 351 | 151 |
| 2024 | 293 | 172 |
| 2025 | 293 | 175 |

## People named Parker

- Parker Posey, American actress (born 1968)
- Parker Young, American actor
- Phillip Parker King, British Royal Navy officer and early explorer of the Australian and Patagonian coasts (179
- Parker Sawyers, American actor
- Parker Griffith, American politician
- Parker McKenna Posey, American actress
- Parker Finn, American film director
- William Parker Foulke, American paleontologist (1816–1865)
- Parker Croft, American actor
- Parker Fennelly, actor, comedian (1891-1988)
- Ellis Parker Butler, American writer (1869-1937)
- Francis Parker Shepard, American sedimentologist (1897-1985)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.