Bakker
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Dutch: baker (person who bakes and sells bread, etc)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bakker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 5th most common surname.
- NLNetherlands1 in 313(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 463as Becker
- USUnited States1 in 793as Baker
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 Bakker 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #750 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 529 (measured from records)
- 1 in 313 (inferred from the name graph)
419,586 named Baker, 2010
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Becker in US United States, DE Germany, LU Luxembourg 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)
baker (person who bakes and sells bread, etc)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bakker is read(measured from records)
Bakker is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Dutch41%
baker (person who bakes and sells bread, etc)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English40%
Robert T., US paleontologist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
James. US TV evangelist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bakker 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 | #281 | 419,586as Baker | 1 in 793 | 420K | Becker | 529 |
| DE Germany | #9 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 463 | listed | Becker | 281 |
| NL Netherlands | #5 | 55,273 | 1 in 313 | 55K | Bakker | 195 |
| BR Brazil | — | 41,006as Becker | 1 in 5.2K | 41K | — | 5 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Bakker | 54 |
| JM Jamaica | #69 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Becker | 8 |
| LU Luxembourg | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 1K | 2.6K | Becker | 44 |
419,586 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling baker. 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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es). 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)
Bakker is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Afrikaans, baker (a person who bakes)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, indefinite plural of bakke
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Marcus Bakkerb. 1923NLDutch politician (1923-2009)
- Marco Bakkerb. 1938NLDutch opera singer (born 1938)
- Jim Bakkerb. 1940USAmerican televangelist (born 1940)
- Robert T. Bakkerb. 1945USAmerican paleontologist
- Dick Bakkerb. 1947NLDutch conductor, composer and record producer (born 1947)
- Gerbrand Bakkerb. 1962NLDutch writer (1962-)
- Glenys Bakkerb. 1962CAcurler
- Thiemo de Bakkerb. 1988NLDutch tennis player
- Danny Bakkerb. 1995NLDutch professional footballer
- Mitchel Bakkerb. 2000NLDutch association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 36 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 55K | #2 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.5K | #8,929 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 3.4K | #9,583 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 3.1K | #9,712 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 166 | #42,753 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
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 Bakker mean, and where does it come from?
- baker (person who bakes and sells bread, etc) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Bakker?
- In the etymology graph, Bäcker is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bakker 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 is Bakker most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bakker is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 313 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bakker?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 55,273 people named Bakker in 2007, about 1 in 313 residents.
- How common is Bakker compared with other names?
- In the United States, Bakker is the 281st most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bakker?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bakkerThe 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, “Bakker” — the 281st most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.