First name origin & meaning: Old English: Cultivated land First name variations: Parke, Parkley, Parks, Parker Last name origins & meanings:
- A name with many origins, to which other, rarer names have been
assimilated. The principal sources are: 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.
- A name with many origins, to which other, rarer names have been
assimilated. The principal sources are: from a medieval pet form of the personal
name Peter. Compare Parkin.
- A name with many origins, to which other, rarer names have been
assimilated. The principal sources are: ornamental name
from park ‘park’.
- A name with many origins, to which other, rarer names have been
assimilated. The principal sources are: variant of
Pak.
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