Parks
Parks was given to 77 boys in 2025, #1,987 among boys’ names; 1,485 Americans have been recorded with it since 1892 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Parks and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (74% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Parks by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Parks?
#1,987 among boys’ names, 2025
Parks rose from #2,847 in 2015 to #1,987 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.9 to 45.1 per million.
83 babies in 2025, the peak
Parks peaked in 2025, when 83 babies were given it (77 boys, #1,987 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 59 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 77 | #1,987 | 45.1 |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,389 | 34.2 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,265 | 36.8 |
| 2022 | 47 | #2,783 | 26.9 |
| 2021 | 48 | #2,686 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,015 | 22.6 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,976 | 22.9 |
| 2018 | 49 | #2,604 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,621 | 25.9 |
| 2016 | 41 | #2,921 | 21.6 |
Every recorded year (87)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #2,847 | 21.9 |
| 2014 | 44 | #2,737 | 22.9 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,107 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,751 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,864 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 28 | #3,780 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,799 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,661 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,932 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,637 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,022 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,948 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,469 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 9 | #7,467 | 4.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,107 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,812 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,941 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,382 | 2.7 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,716 | 3.2 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,432 | 2.5 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,063 | 4.0 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,816 | 2.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,027 | 4.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,036 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,269 | 4.0 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,246 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,583 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 7 | #3,459 | 3.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,469 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,921 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,915 | 3.0 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,507 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,507 | 3.3 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,208 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,779 | 4.6 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,144 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,110 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,081 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 5 | #4,122 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 7 | #3,279 | 3.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,063 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 10 | #2,566 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 10 | #2,571 | 5.7 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,287 | 3.8 |
| 1946 | 8 | #2,847 | 4.9 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,955 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,151 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,138 | 5.1 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,825 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,056 | 6.0 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,300 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,440 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,667 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,360 | 10.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,032 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 9 | #2,794 | 8.6 |
| 1931 | 13 | #2,182 | 12.5 |
| 1930 | 9 | #2,949 | 8.2 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,169 | 13.0 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,131 | 13.5 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,272 | 12.4 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,857 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,157 | 13.4 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,195 | 7.9 |
| 1923 | 19 | #1,852 | 17.3 |
| 1922 | 19 | #1,867 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,594 | 10.9 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,418 | 7.5 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,625 | 11.2 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,498 | 11.8 |
| 1917 | 20 | #1,680 | 21.6 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,121 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,315 | 8.2 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,069 | 16.8 |
| 1913 | 8 | #2,225 | 15.6 |
| 1912 | 8 | #2,009 | 18.6 |
| 1892 | 5 | #1,208 | 41.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Parks a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,485 Americans recorded as Parks, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 77 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Parks: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Parks, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 74% of the 1,485 Americans ever recorded as Parks. The median Parks alive today is 11 years old; half are between 5 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 904 people named Parks (46 women and girls, 858 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 799 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 81 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 26 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 36 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 282 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 647 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Parks born?
The states with the most babies named Parks are Georgia, Tennessee and Texas, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 12 | #779 | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,010 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,858 | 0.5× |
| Utah | 5 | #783 | 1.8× |
| Alabama | 5 | #848 | 0.2× |
Where Parks is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Parks is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1910 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Parks with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Parks
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Parks and names like it
- Compare Parks and ReevesBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sParks peaked in 2025.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Parks since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Parks.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Parks alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.