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Boy's name · #102 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave
60% boys · 40% girls — Parker is also given to girls: 2,536 in 2025, about 40% in recent years. Parker →
Parker's best rank, #72, came in 2015; it has settled back to #102 today. Roughly 131,000 boys have been named Parker since 1880. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#70 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #76 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #133 in Canada (2025) · #134 in New Zealand (2025) · #175 in England & Wales (2025) · #175 in N. Ireland (2025) · #198 in Scotland (2025) · #286 in Ireland (2025) · #6,376 in Ecuador (2025) · #97 in Australia (NSW) (2024) · #5,952 in France (2024) · #1,137 in Sweden (2023) and 2 more.
It is also an American family name — about 336,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 227 notable people named Parker:
Sports figures appear 2.2× more often than among typical names — e.g. Parker Jackson-Cartwright, American basketball player (born 1995).
Similar names: Carson · Paxton · Colton · Tucker · Carter · Archer
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