Parks
Masculine · “of the park”
Parks is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,467 boys against 18 girls since 1880.
Parks is the surname of the man who lived by an enclosed wood, and park is a Frankish word for a fence before it is anything green.
How old is the name Parks?
Parks first appears in US birth records in 1892 — 133 years ago. The typical Parks alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 1,100 people named Parks are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Parks most popular?
Parks peaked in 1892, reaching #1066 nationally. Today it ranks #1976, 910 places below that high. See the whole 1892 chart.
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Where it comes from
From parc to Parks
The story of Parks
A park was a legal thing before it was a pleasant one — an enclosed chase held by royal license, with the deer inside belonging to the holder. The surname named someone living beside one. Rosa Parks made it internationally known. It entered American given-name use recently and appears in the registers in current use.
Meaning
of the park, enclosure
From the Middle English park, from the Old French parc and a Frankish root about an enclosure. A medieval park was a fenced hunting ground held by license, not a public space. The s marks a patronymic or a topographic 'of the parks'. The etymology is documented.
How the name formed
- parc
- park
- Parks
Related forms: Park · Parke · Parc
Pronouncing Parks
PARKS
One syllable. It is a homophone of the ordinary English plural.
Nicknames for Parks
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1892
- Most boys named
- 202577 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1066reached in 1892
- Change vs 2023
- +22.2%77 in 2025, from 63
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Parks in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Park in English — spelling variant
- Parke in English — spelling variant
- Parc in French — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, Utah, Georgia.
Parkss among us
people named Parks are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 22,183 born in 2025 was named Parks
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
Fashion outlook
Parks is on its second act. Revived names age gently: the generation that wore them first is far enough away that the name feels classic rather than dated.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Parks is headed
Parks looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 16% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Parks beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Parks in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That a park was a fence before it was a green space is a genuinely good fact.
- Rosa Parks gives the surname real and specific weight.
- One syllable, firm, and never mispronounced.
- It is an ordinary English plural noun.
- It reads unmistakably as a surname.
- Park is also a very common Korean surname, which the singular invokes.
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Masculine · #1976 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Parkss are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Parks are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Parks in 2025?
- Parks ranks #1976 among US boy names in 2025, with 77 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Parks?
- About 1 in every 22,183 US boys born in 2025 was named Parks — 77 in all.
- Will my child share the name Parks with classmates?
- Parks will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Parks
Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.
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