Boecker
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈboʊkɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Boecker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 416K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 24Kas Böcker
- PKPakistan≈1 in 262K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Boecker itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 262K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 named Böcker, est.
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Böcker in DE Germany, SE Sweden and Bocker in BR Brazil, CR Costa Rica.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Boecker 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Böcker | 101 |
| CN China | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 484K | — | Boecker | 1 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Boecker | 1 |
| US United States | 799 | 1 in 416K | 840 | Boecker | 178 |
| BR Brazil | 198 | 1 in 1.1M | 198 | Bocker | 25 |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 288K | — | Boecker | 15 |
| SE Sweden | 100as Böcker | 1 in 102K | 100 | Böcker | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 35as Bocker | 1 in 146K | 35 | Bocker | 9 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Julius Boeckerb. 1872DEGerman jurist (1872–1951)
- Eduard Boeckerb. 1886DEGerman physician
- Walther Boeckerb. 1952DEGerman politician
- Robert Boeckerb. 1961DEGerman photographer
- Arvid Boeckerb. 1964DEGerman painter and curator
- Jörg Boeckerb. 1971DEGerman television presenter
- Manuel Boeckerb. 1973DEGerman actor
- Simon BoeckerDEresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0002-0695-4476
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 11 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 840 | #29,865 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 799 | #29,528 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 777 | #28,824 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 198 | #37,106 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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
- How do you pronounce Boecker?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈboʊkɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Boecker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Böcker in Germany, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Boecker?
- In the United States, the national register counted 799 people named Boecker in 2010, about 1 in 416 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Boecker?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boeckerThe 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, “Boecker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.