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park Name Meaning and History

  1. English and Scottish: from Middle English, Old French parc ‘park’; a metonymic occupational name for someone employed in a park or a topographic name for someone who lived in or near a park. In the Middle Ages a park was a large enclosed area where the landowner could hunt game.
  2. English and Scottish: from a medieval pet form of the personal name Peter. Compare Parkin.
  3. Swedish: ornamental name from park ‘park’.
  4. Korean: variant of Pak.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The park name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the park family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of park Families in the US in 1920
Number of park families
 224-446
 75-223		 1-74
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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