Bakér
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bakér is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Panama it is the 20th most common surname. Recorded meaning: From Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er.
- USUnited States1 in 793(measured from records)
- GYGuyana1 in 2.7K
- SESweden1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 248 (measured from records)
- 1 in 793 (inferred from the name graph)
419,586 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Baker in US United States, BR Brazil, PA Panama and 1 more.
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)- Middle Englishbakere(measured from records)
- Old Englishbæcere“baker”(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*bakārijaz“baker”(measured from records)
From Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er. Cognate with Dutch bakker (“baker”), German Bäcker (“baker”), Norwegian Bokmål baker (“baker”), Swedish bagare (“baker”), Icelandic bakari (“baker”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bakér 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 | — | 419,586 | 1 in 793 | 420K | Baker | 248 |
| SE Sweden | — | 779 | 1 in 13K | 779 | — | 15 |
| ES Spain | — | 728 | 1 in 69K | 728 | Baker | 55 |
| BR Brazil | — | 456 | 1 in 464K | 456 | Baker | 84 |
| DK Denmark | — | 374 | 1 in 16K | 374 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 332 | 1 in 16K | 332 | — | 4 |
| GY Guyana | — | 278 | 1 in 2.7K | 278 | — | — |
| PA Panama | #20 | — | — | 35 | Baker | 39 |
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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Tribunal Electoral — Boletín, postulaciones for the 5 May 2024 general election; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bakér mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English bakere, from Old English bæcere (“baker”), from Proto-Germanic *bakārijaz (“baker”), equivalent to bake + -er. Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and A dictionary of surnames and 5 other sources.
- Is Bakér a male or female name?
- Bakér is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bakér have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 420 thousand people named Bakér, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baker.
- Where is Bakér most common?
- Bakér is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 793 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bakér?
- In the United States, the national register counted 419,586 people named Bakér in 2010, about 1 in 793 residents.
- How common is Bakér compared with other names?
- In Panama, Bakér is the 20th most common surname of 39,844 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bakér?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bak%C3%A9rThe 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, “Bakér” — the 20th most common surname in Panama. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.