Park

Boy name variations

Family 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.