About the Parent surname
The surname Parent is associated with an older descriptive nickname. Parent comes from the French word for “relative” and may have described a family relationship or functioned as a nickname. Names of this type generally began as nicknames used to distinguish a person by a physical, personal, or social characteristic. The same nickname could be given independently to different people, producing unrelated family lines.
Pronunciation:
Pa-ran/paʁɑ̃/