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.English and Scottish: from a medieval pet form of the personal
name Peter. Compare Parkin.Swedish: ornamental name
from park ‘park’.Korean: variant of
Pak.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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