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The parker Surname

parker Name Meaning and History

  1. English: occupational name for a gamekeeper employed in a medieval park, from an agent derivative of Middle English parc ‘park’ (see Park 1). This surname is also found in Ireland.
  2. Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish names.

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

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

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Distribution of parker Families in the US in 1920
Number of parker families
 1393-2783
 465-1392		 1-464
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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