Parker

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Parker: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Parker: Recorded every year since 2004, its highest recorded position is #93, and it stood at #286 in 2025.

6registrars recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
22years from first to last
#93highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2008–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2008	#5545
2011	#4764
2012	#2969
2013	#1484
2014	#2464
2015	#1240
2016	#1749
2017	#1371
2018	#1111
2019	#1063
2020	#807
2021	#918
2022	#1282
2023	#1705
2024	#776

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 2004 to 2024.

In 2024: #97 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, #121 among boys in Scotland, #136 among boys in Northern Ireland, #172 among boys in England and Wales, #374 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 6 national registrars across 6 regions, 2004–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #3651 among boys in England and Wales in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2023–2024
Highest recorded position: #93 among boys in New South Wales, Australia, in 2023 (recorded 2023–2024).
New South Wales, Australia · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #286 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Parker appears in 6 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 2004, and has registered 4,664 births with the name.

Parker across 6 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Parker's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#3651 (2004)	#121 (2019)	#172 (2024)	21 of 21	4,664 (2004–2024)	467 (2019)
England and Wales · Girls	#5545 (2008)	#776 (2024)	#776 (2024)	15 of 17	350 (2008–2024)	48 (2024)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#311 (2011)	#117 (2017)	#136 (2024)	14 of 14	208 (2011–2024)	24 (2017)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#401 (2012)	#216 (2018)	#286 (2025)	14 of 14	237 (2012–2025)	25 (2018)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#432 (2017)	#397 (2020)	#397 (2020)	2 of 4	6 (2017–2020)	3 (2017)
New South Wales, Australia · Boys	#93 (2023)	#93 (2023)	#97 (2024)	2 of 2	176 (2023–2024)	89 (2023)

Parker by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Parker in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	59	6 of 10	10
2010s	2,695	10 of 10	270
2020sbusiest	1,910	5 of 10	382

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 382 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2013 and 2014, when recorded births rose by 192, from 116 to 308.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Parker appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 2004 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #93 in New South Wales, Australia in 2023.

Parker's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#776	48	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#172	293	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1705	17	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#151	351	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1282	25	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#121	462	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#918	38	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#143	395	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#807	45	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#136	409	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1063	32	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#121	467	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1111	31	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#136	417	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1371	24	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#140	413	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1749	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#142	407	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1240	27	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#142	397	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2464	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#181	308	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1484	21	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#354	116	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#425	93	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#647	51	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1055	26	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1218	20	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1828	11	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1666	12	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1744	10	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#3849	3	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2024	New South Wales, Australia	male	#97	87	Insufficient	Not yet available
2023	New South Wales, Australia	male	#93	89	Insufficient	Not yet available
2022	New Zealand	male	#100	49	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#136	16	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#145	16	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#138	18	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#120	22	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#397	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#169	13	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#127	20	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	male	#120	21	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#432	3	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#117	24	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#148	19	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#150	18	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#228	9	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	male	#303	5	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#403	3	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#311	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#286	15	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#374	10	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#303	14	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#225	22	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#239	20	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#219	22	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#225	22	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#216	25	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#296	15	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#237	21	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#294	15	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#259	19	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#422	8	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#401	9	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#476	6	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#121	40	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 6 registrars between 2004 and 2025, ranked in 22 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #93, first reached in 2023.

It held a top-100 place in 3 years, 3 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 467 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2011, and 20 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Parisa · #1433, 28y
Parisha · #1970, 17y
Parker-James · #2529, 10y
Parneet · #2150, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 6 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Harlow · #66, 18y
Bodhi · #61, 22y
Nate · #46, 26y
Grayson · #44, 21y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Rehmat · #93, 16y
Cruz · #95, 22y
Emilian · #96, 21y
Saorlaith · #90, 19y

Parker was ranked #93 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 2023. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Parker and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Parker without appearing here.

Parker moved ahead of

Cecilie Compare
In 2012 they stood at #4764 and #2636 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1484 and #5742.
Kristine Compare
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1484 and #5742.
Braxton Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3849 and #2418 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1055 and #4678.
Robyn Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3651 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1055 and #4678.

Moved ahead of Parker

Jesse Compare
In 2012 they stood at #401 and #500 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2013 that had become #422 and #271.
Beau Compare
In 2020 they stood at #219 and #240 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2021 that had become #239 and #168.
Arlo Compare
In 2018 they stood at #120 and #121 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2019 that had become #127 and #73.
Elias Compare
In 2022 they stood at #225 and #349 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #303 and #254.

Moved the opposite way to Parker

Aaron Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Parker went from #3651 to #172 while Aaron went from #41 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Parker went from #3651 to #172 while Adam went from #24 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Parker went from #3651 to #172 while Alan went from #275 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Parker went from #3651 to #172 while Alexander went from #20 to #36.

Moved the same way as Parker

Albie Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Parker went from #3651 to #172 and Albie from #408 to #19.
Alfred Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Parker went from #3651 to #172 and Alfred from #171 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Parker went from #3651 to #172 and Archie from #45 to #10.
Arlo Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Parker went from #3651 to #172 and Arlo from #875 to #15.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 6 regions, from 2004 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #93 in New South Wales, Australia in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Parker

Parker at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Parker across 6 official records

Parker by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Parker appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Parker moved ahead of

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Parker at a glance

Parker across 6 official records

Parker by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Parker appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Parker

Parker and the names beside it

Parker moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Parker

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