Parker

The name began as an English occupational surname for a medieval gamekeeper charged with maintaining an enclosed deer park. It surfaced in American civil registers throughout the late nineteenth century as an inheritance name passed down from maternal family trees. By the late twentieth century, parents adopted it directly as an independent given name for boys and girls alike.

The name reads as outdoorsy, buoyant, and decidedly adolescent. Hearing it called out across a playground usually summons someone born during the 2014 crest, clutching a scooter and a pair of athletic shorts. Roughly twenty percent of all bearers in the record are female, though the name moves through school rosters without pausing over gender. With an average age of fifteen today, the name spends most of its daylight hours waiting for a dismissal bell.