Baker
401,148 people in America carry this name — ranked #45 of 777.
A surname with a trade, a place or a father behind it.
Say it BAY kur
2 syllables · the capitals are the stressed part
Phonetic transcription
B EY1 K ER0 — ARPAbet, as published in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. The digit on a vowel marks its stress.
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People counted 401,148 2020 Census
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Rank #45 Common
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As a first name 3,081 ranked #5,534 the other way round
The meaning and origin of Baker
Saxon in origin, reading literally as “of trade, a baker”.
Origins are a matter of scholarly argument rather than record, and a name can be traced more than one way. We state one reading and say where it came from.
Who carries it today
- White alone (non-Hispanic) — 76.9%
- Black or African American alone (non-Hispanic) — 14.0%
- Hispanic or Latino origin — 3.3%
- Two or more races — 4.2%
- Asian and Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone — 0.7%
- American Indian and Alaska Native alone — 0.8%
Categories are how people answered the census — a fact about the bearers, not a property of the name. Conclusions are ours, not the Census Bureau’s.
Surnames built the same way as Baker
Nothing else in the file ends on the same sound — a rare thing, and useful if you want a first name nobody will echo.
- Johnson 1,858,234
- Miller 1,129,186
- Davis 1,074,448
- Wilson 777,275
- Thomas 734,345
- Taylor 723,758
- Jackson 686,937
- Perez 680,712
- Martin 678,691
- Lewis 515,459
Matched on phonemes, not spelling, so the lists follow the ear rather than the page.
Names about as common
The nearest entries above and below by number of people.
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Where this name sits between household and almost unheard of.
Where this page gets its numbers
- Counts, ranks and shares: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census tabulations of first and last names occurring 100 or more times. Percentages, bands and groupings are our own arithmetic — the conclusions are ours, not the Bureau’s.
- Pronunciation, syllables and rhyme groups: CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, Carnegie Mellon University. The plain-English respelling is ours.
- Origins and the forms a name takes in other languages: Charlotte Yonge, History of Christian Names, 1884 — a public-domain work. Scholarship has moved on since, so read it as one reading of a name, not the last word.
Below a hundred people we publish no figure at all — the same threshold the Census Bureau applies to us. What each source covers