ESC Name Rank Total Searching... No names found Try searching for: Emma, Liam, Olivia, Noah... 2021 First Year 2024 Last Year 2021 Peak Year #13458 Peak Rank 12 Total Count 2 Years Active 🌍 ## Meaning & Origin of Parks What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures. A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are green spaces set aside for recreation inside towns and cities. National parks and country parks are green spaces used for recreation in the countryside. Source: [Wikipedia ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park) (CC BY-SA 3.0). [Read more → ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park) 🏛️Origin & history Depiction of a medieval hunting park from a 15th-century manuscript English deer parks was used by the aristocracy in medieval times for game hunting. They had walls or thick hedges around them to keep game animals (e.g., stags) in and people out. It was strictly forbidden for commoners to hunt animals in these deer parks. These game preserves evolved into landscaped parks set around mansions and country houses from the sixteenth century onwards. These may have served as hunting grounds but they also proclaimed the owner's wealth and status. An aesthetic of landscape design began in these stat [![Wikipedia thumbnail for Parks](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Halleyparknovember_b_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Halleyparknovember_b_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park) 📖 ## The Story of Parks Parks first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1892, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2026: 66 births, good for #2,223 nationwide. About 26% of every Parks on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. As of 2026, Parks ranks #2,223 for baby boys with 66 births, rising sharply (+32% over the past five years). All told, over 2K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1890s to the 2020s. ## Popularity Over Time ## Popularity by State ME WA MT ND MN WI MI NY VT NH MA OR ID SD IA IL IN OH PA NJ CT RI CA NV WY NE MO KY WV VA MD DE DC UT CO KS AR TN NC SC AK AZ NM OK LA MS AL GA HI TX FL Top 10 11-50 51-100 101-500 500+ No data 🎶 ## Names that sound like Parks Phonetically similar names — useful when Parks is the vibe but a different syllable count or letter feel might suit better. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name. * Parkes * Parcs * [Parx](/parx) * Porks * Barks * Barques * [Park](/park) * [Sparks](/sparks) * Perks * Pox * Parka * Parse Source: [Datamuse ](https://www.datamuse.com/api/). Phonetic similarity ranking, not curated. ❓ ## Frequently Asked Questions about Parks What does the name Parks mean? A park is an area of natural, semi-natural or planted space set aside for human enjoyment and recreation or for the protection of wildlife or natural habitats. Urban parks are green spaces set aside for recreation inside towns and cities. National parks and country parks are green spaces used for recreation in the countryside. How popular is Parks in 2026? In 2026, Parks ranks #2,223 among boys' names in the U.S., with 66 babies given the name that year. When was Parks most popular? Parks reached its peak popularity in 2026, ranking #1,066 that year with 66 babies given the name. In which U.S. states is Parks most popular? Parks has historically been most popular in North Carolina, Utah, Tennessee. Rankings vary year to year, but these states show the strongest concentration of births named Parks. Is Parks a unisex name? In U.S. Social Security records, Parks is primarily a boy's name. We don't have meaningful data for it as a girl's name. What names go well with Parks? Names that share a similar style or popularity range with Parks include Amiel, Marko, Whitelaw. These pairings are based on rank proximity and naming era in U.S. data. ## Similar Names [👧ElsiemaePeak #13458](/elsiemae)[👧NorriPeak #13458](/norri)[👧MasikaPeak #13458](/masika)[👧IlliaPeak #13458](/illia)[👧ZahidaPeak #13458](/zahida)[👧JavoniPeak #13458](/javoni)[👧EritreaPeak #13458](/eritrea)[👧SakhiPeak #13458](/sakhi) ## About the name Parks Parks is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1892 and has accumulated 2K births in the dataset. Parks's peak popularity came in 2026 when it ranked #1,066\. Use the chart and map above to compare Parks's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices. ### Continue exploring * [ Top names of 2026 → ](/year/2026) * [ Names of the 2020s → ](/decade/2020s) * [ Names starting with "P" → ](/letter/p) * [ Browse all boy names → ](/names/boys) * [ Top names of 2026 → ](/year/2026) Data sources * Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. [Social Security Administration ](https://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/). Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships. * Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — [Behind the Name ](https://www.behindthename.com/) (used under their public API terms). * Meaning prose and editorial summary — [Wikipedia ](https://en.wikipedia.org/) article extracts, licensed under [CC BY-SA 3.0 ](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). * Predicted nationality distribution — [Nationalize.io ](https://nationalize.io/). * Phonetically similar names — [Datamuse ](https://www.datamuse.com/api/). Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.