Park vs Parnell
American parents have registered 1,637 Parks since 1880, against 1,479 Parnells. Park is still ahead, with 9 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Park Parnell
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 140 years in which either name was published, Park for 82 years and Parnell for 58 years. The lead changed hands 24 times.
- 1880–1947 Park ahead, apart from 4 short spells
- 1948–1998 Parnell ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1999–2025 Park ahead, apart from one short spell
16 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Park | Parnell | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,637 | 1,479 |
| Most in one year | 33 | 39 |
| Babies in 2025 | 9 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 700 | 870 |
| Median age today | 44 | 53 |
| Peak year | 1923 | 1963 |
| Best rank | 1,256th boys | 1,238th boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 8,243rd | unranked |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1912 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,637 | 57 / 1,422 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Parnells alive today are over 53; half the Parks are over 44. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Park and Parnell.