The name Parker derives from the word ‘park’ in the sense of ‘park’ or ‘green space’ and was originally used as a job title for someone who tended the parks of a nobleman.
Parker is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.
The first name Parker is one of the top 100 most popular boys names in the US – currently at #81 in our SmartGenius ranking. Over 1,000 babies each year are named Parker, accounting for approximately 0.30 % of all newborn boys. In the entire USA, approximately 139,597 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Parker. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
The name Parker derives from the word ‘park’ in the sense of ‘park’ or ‘green space’ and was originally used as a job title for someone who tended the parks of a nobleman.
Who is noble? Nobles are often members of royal houses or noble families, with titles such as count or duke. In many societies of the world today, noble classes no longer exist and the term is used only historically.
Parker Posey (*1968)
Parker Posey is a US-american actress best known for her roles in independent movies and often referred to as the 'Queen of the Indies'.
Peter Parker (Marvel)
The character Peter Parker is the identity behind the superhero Spider-Man. Spider-Man is one of the most important characters of the Marvel publishing house.
When you hear the name Parker, you might first think of people. But did you know that there are also places with the name Parker? Are you also called Parker? Maybe one day you will visit the places that are named just like you...
are called Parker, for example in Arizona, Colorado or Oklahoma. Others are called Parker City (Indiana) or Parker Strip (also in Arizona).
at the University of Cambrige, in England, is named 'Parker Library'. It is named after Matthew Parker, the 16th century Archbishop of Canterbury.
in Wellington, New Zealand, is called Parker Bridge. It connects the Gracefield and Lower Hutt districts, which are separated by the Hutt River.
If we dig really deep into our statistics, we find that there are very few boys' names that have been consistently popular for so long that they have been given to newborns in every single year since the beginning of our records in 1880. In fact, there are only 442 boys' names that appear in our statistics in every single year, and Parker is one of those very special classics. At the same time, Parker has never been more popular than it is in this century - in 2022 the name even made it to rank #48 of the most popular boys' names, easily landing in the top 100 of our SmartGenius first name statistics.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Parker was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
...because: In 2022, 6,243 boys were born and given the name Parker by their parents. That puts Parker at #48 on our list of most popular boys' names. It was much less popular in 1974 - only 28 parents chose this name for their newborn son and it ranked 1,493 on the popularity scale of all boys' names.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Parker is one of them. However, Parker is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Utah seem to particularly fancy this name – the 3,734 men called Parker who live here are 0,274% of all male residents and push their name up to #83 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Utah. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 139,597 people with the name Parker. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Parker on position 260 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With six letters, the name Parker is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Parker and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Parker, you can simply say:
Pig
Apple
Rocket
Koala
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Parker
Parker
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
A
R
K
E
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
A
R
K
E
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Parker sounds like this:
