Parker Name Meaning & Origin
Parker
Origin of the name Parker:
Transferred use of the surname which arose as an occupational name for one who worked in a park. The name is derived from the Middle English parker (a park-keeper, a gamekeeper).
From A World of Baby Names by Teresa Norman.
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Keeper of the forest; Gamekeeper
Old-English Occupational Surname
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Parker Stevenson, American actor.
Parker O'Donnell, son of Rosie O'Donnell
Parker MacDonald, Canadian hockey player and coach.
Parker "Bullet" Hall, American professional football player.
Parker Ballinger, nephew of Coleen Ballinger- Parker in song, story & screen
Parker Lewis, title character from the sitcom, "Parker Lewis Can't Lose"
Parker Brothers, toy and board game manufacturer.
Peter Parker, Spider-Man
Omni Parker House Hotel, Boston historical landmark. Famous for their celebrity and political clientele.
Parker Paint, a paint distributor.
Parker, one of the twin teenage boys on desperate housewives (Parker and Porter).
The son of Seeley Booth in "Bones" is named Parker.
Parker is the name (maybe an alias) of the character in a series of novels written by Donald E Westlake under the pseudonym Richard Stark.
Parker Rooney is the youngest child of the Rooney family on Disney Channel's "Liv and Maddie"
Parker Tristin (a drag king alias)