Park

Where Park comes from

Park hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1876
    Park Trammell born
    American politician
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #640 among boys — 9 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1896
    Peak, #592
    13 babies named Park — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1897
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #942.
  5. 1957
    Park Overall born
    actress
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Park Overall · actress, born 1957
  • Park Trammell · American politician, 1876–1936
  • Park Benjamin, Sr. · American journalist, 1809–1864
  • Park Dietz · American psychiatrist, born 1948
  • Park Benjamin · American physician and lawyer, 1849–1922

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.