Parks — #2363 US boys' name
1,389 babies named Parks in U.S. Social Security records since 1892, with the highest year being 2023. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 83% of names given to boys today.
29% of everyone ever named Parks was born in this single decade.
63 babies were named Parks in 2023 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Parks
The Social Security Administration has registered 1,389 babies named Parks between 1892 and 2024, spanning 133 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Parks currently holds the #2363 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 63 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Parks performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 400 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Parks shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 135 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Parks in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Parks 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 1,389 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.
Parks at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
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Parks popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1892
- Peak year (2023)
- 63
- Annual births at peak — across 133 years of records
Currently ranks #2363 among boys.
1,389 total births across 133 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2023 with 63 births in a single year.
Parks popularity over time — girls
12 total births recorded since 2021 (Parks as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Parks accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Parks by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 400 births that decade — 29% of Parks's all-time total
Parks decade highlights
- Peak decade 400 births
- Runner-up 256 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Parks's strongest decade
400 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 29% of all-time use.
Parks by state
Where Parks concentrates geographically — total births since 1892
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | North Carolina | | 135 | 9.7% |
| #2 | Texas | | 59 | 4.2% |
| #3 | Georgia | | 44 | 3.2% |
| #4 | Utah | | 26 | 1.9% |
| #5 | Tennessee | | 10 | 0.7% |
135 of 1,389 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- North Carolina 9.7% of nationwide
- Texas 4.2% of nationwide
- Georgia 3.2% of nationwide
- Utah 1.9% of nationwide
- Tennessee 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
North Carolina accounts for 9.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1892–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.