The Parent surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 11,193 people carried this name — #3,225 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 26,400 people counted. That is up 3% from 10,874 in 2000.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 6,416 people named Parent.
109 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 97 départements, most often Nord.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 1,250 people named Parent live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Hainaut.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
66 people named Parent live in Switzerland.
They live in 7 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Vaud.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Parent in American newspapers,
1903–1951.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 5,478,690 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Parent,
with a public archive behind them.
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Alexandre Parent du Châtelet 1790–1836 · physician -
Étienne Parent 1802–1874 · lawyer -
Basile Parent 1807–1866 · engineer -
Emmanuel Parent de Curzon 1811–1896 · sociologist -
Nicolas Parent 1817–1890 · politician
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 234 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Parent.
- Pardon 1,253 · U.S. census
- Pare 3,464 · U.S. census
- Paredes 27,274 · U.S. census
- Paree 114 · U.S. census
- Pareja 1,377 · U.S. census
- Parel 263 · U.S. census
- Parente 3,170 · U.S. census
- Parenteau 2,245 · U.S. census
- Parenti 1,711 · U.S. census
- Pares 450 · U.S. census
- Paret 405 · U.S. census
- Pareti 228 · U.S. census
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