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Baker

in the US

There are 346,107 people with the last name "Baker" in the United States.

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Ranking in the US

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Baker 37
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  1. is 33rd most common Wright
  2. is 34th most common Nelson
  3. is 35th most common Adams
  4. is 36th most common Scott
  5. is 37th most common Baker
  6. is 38th most common Hill
  7. is 39th most common Green
  8. is 40th most common Perez
  9. is 41st most common Campbell

Similar Names and Nicknames

Becerra, Bader, Buker, Bakewell, Bake, Bakeman, Bakes, Beceiro, Baken, Bakeer

Most Common First Names for Baker

Robert, James, John, David, Mary, Michael, William, Richard, Charles, Linda

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Meaning & History

1. English: occupational name, from Middle English bakere, Old English bæcere, a derivative of bacan ‘to bake’. It may have been used for someone whose special task in the kitchen of a great house or castle was the baking of bread, but since most humbler households did their own baking in the Middle Ages, it may also have referred to the owner of a communal oven used by the whole village. The right to be in charge of this and exact money or loaves in return for its use was in many parts of the country a hereditary feudal privilege. Compare Miller. Less often the surname may have been acquired by someone noted for baking particularly fine bread or by a baker of pottery or bricks.

2. Americanized form of cognates or equivalents in many other languages, for example German Bäcker, Becker; Dutch Bakker, Bakmann; French Boulanger. For other forms see Hanks and Hodges (1988).

FOREBEARS Baker was well established as an early immigrant family name in Puritan New England. Among others, two men called Remember Baker (father and son) lived at Woodbury, CT, in the early 17th century, and an Alexander Baker arrived in Boston, MA, in 1635.

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