as a First Name
Transferred use of the surname, in origin an occupational name for either a scribe or binder of books (a derivative of Middle English boke ‘book’, Old English bōc), or else a bleacher of cloth (a derivative of Middle English bouken ‘to steep in lye’, Middle Dutch būken).
| 2,918th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 4,610
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 7,223
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Booker per capita
- 1910
- marked the height of its popularity
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100%
85%
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14%
30-54
30-54
0.93%
13-29
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0.27%
0-12
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Top state populations
U.S. Distribution Map
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