Last Name BAKER

Summary/Contribute


Meaning The baker.
A name of trade, a baker; from the Saxon bacan, to dry by heat.
Origin English, Anglo-Saxon, Jewish, Spanish, Dutch, French, German, Irish, Falkland, Maori, Austrian, Belgian, Zimbabwean, South african, Hungarian, Guam

Rank 38 (2000 US census) 37 (1990 US census)
Count 413,351 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 82.08%, or 339279 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 13.63%, or 56340 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.45%, or 1860 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.83%, or 3431 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.54%, or 6366 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 1.47%, or 6076 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


Shortest last names

 The 2000 USA census contains no surnames with ONE character. The shortest last names there have at least two characters in them. We found 175 of those. It does not mean that a one character name does not exist. The census data only contain surnames that occurred at lea...

Shortest baby names

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American Surnames

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