Baker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Old English bæcere 'baker'; first attested William le Bakere 1177 P (Nf)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/beɪkɚ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Baker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common surname.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 621(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 658
- AUAustralia≈1 in 707
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #201 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 622 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 621 (inferred from the name graph)
419,586 people, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Old English bæcere 'baker'; first attested William le Bakere 1177 P (Nf)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baker counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #34 | 419,586 | 1 in 793 | 420K | Baker | 622 |
| GB United Kingdom | #32 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 621 | listed | Baker | 385 |
| CA Canada | #32 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 833 | 10 | Baker | 285 |
| IT Italy | #43 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Baker | 66 |
| AU Australia | #34 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 707 | 1 | Baker | 284 |
| NZ New Zealand | #30 | ≈7,500 est. | ≈1 in 658 | — | Baker | 160 |
| IE Ireland | #47 | ≈6,300 est. | ≈1 in 820 | — | Baker | 102 |
419,586 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Baker is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A person who bakes and sells bread, cakes and similar items.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, Occupational name for a baker.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
In Swahili, short form used from Abuubakar
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In English, William le Bakere 1177 P (Nf); Robert Bakere 1246 AssLa; Walter le Backere 1280 MESO (Ha). OE bæcere ‘baker’. cf. BAXTER.
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
In Irish, An English occupational name found in all the provinces. It was in Ireland, as le Bakere, as early as the thirteenth century
as a nameThe Surnames of Ireland
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edward Dickinson Bakerb. 1811USAmerican politician, lawyer and military leader (1811–1861)
- Philip Noel-Bakerb. 1889GBBritish athlete, politician, Cabinet minister, life peer and Nobel Peace Prize winner (1889–1982)
- Joséphine Bakerb. 1906USAmerican-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)
- Stanley Bakerb. 1928GBWelsh actor (1928–1976)
- Chet Bakerb. 1929USAmerican jazz trumpeter and vocalist (1929-1988)
- James Bakerb. 1930USAmerican lawyer and statesman (born 1930)
- Ginger Bakerb. 1939GBBritish drummer (1939–2019)
- Mark Linn-Bakerb. 1954USAmerican actor
- Simon Bakerb. 1969AUAustralian actor and director (born 1969)
- Machine Gun Kellyb. 1990USnot in their usual nameAmerican musician (born 1990)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 66 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 420K | #44 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 413K | #38 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 401K | #45 |
Reference works 7
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Baker mean, and where does it come from?
- Old English bæcere 'baker'; first attested William le Bakere 1177 P (Nf) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How common is the name Baker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 419,586 people named Baker in 2010, about 1 in 793 residents.
- How common is Baker compared with other names?
- In the United States, Baker is the 34th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Baker?
- In the etymology graph, Bäcker is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Baker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 420 thousand people named Baker, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baker.
- How do you pronounce Baker?
- A machine transcription gives /beɪkɚ/ (IPA) for English.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bakerThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Baker” — the 34th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.