Parker
Parker is ranked 97th among boys in 2024 (3,605 births). Its best rank was 72nd, in 2015.
- Rank in 2024
- #97down 6 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,6050.21% of boys
- Peak year
- 20145,720 births
- Best rank
- #72in 2015
- Since 1880
- 157,784people given the name
The story in the numbers
127,437 boys have been named Parker in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2014, with 5,720 births — 0.30% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 73 → 97).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 39%. It has spent 124 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 16 of them in the top 100.
Parker is used for both sexes: 19% of its bearers are girls (30,347), most of them born around 2024.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Parker | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 112 | |
| 1890s | 134 | |
| 1900s | 143 | |
| 1910s | 546 | |
| 1920s | 728 | |
| 1930s | 559 | |
| 1940s | 578 | |
| 1950s | 568 | |
| 1960s | 524 | |
| 1970s | 633 | |
| 1980s | 2,801 | |
| 1990s | 16,235 | |
| 2000s | 35,728 | |
| 2010s | 49,230 | |
| 2020s | 18,918 |
In 2014, its biggest year
Parker was the 73rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2014 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2014.
Names that rose and fell with Parker
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Keilanpeak 2007
- Tahapeak 2014
- Ibraheempeak 2015
- Chaycepeak 2016
- Edinpeak 2016
- Elijahpeak 2011
- Aleksanderpeak 2014
- Keshavpeak 2023
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.