Parker — #97 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Parker

The Social Security Administration has registered 127,437 babies named Parker between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Parker currently holds the #97 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 5,720 babies received it in a single year. Parker is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 30,347 additional births since 1970.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Parker performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 49,230 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Parker shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 9,444 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Parker in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Parker in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 127,437 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.