first name
PARKER
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 120,174 people named Parker, 85.6% reported their origin as White, 5.3% as two or more races and 4.4% as Hispanic or Latino. 84.9% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Parker peaked in 2014, when 7,126 babies got the name.
At least 163,836 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Parker by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2020s, when it ranked #76. The largest share of babies named Parker, 49.7%, were born in 2013 or later.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Parker is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Parker has been most common in Utah (3.2×), Nevada (2.2×), and Idaho (2.2×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.32×).
158,063 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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Also a last name
As a last name, Parker ranks #58 of 156,621, with 323,880 people. See Parker as a last name
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