Böcker
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Böcker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 24K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 416Kas Boecker
- SESweden1 in 102K
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 Böcker 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 24K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, 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 Boecker in US United States, CA Canada, PK Pakistan and 1 more 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 across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Böcker 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 | 799as Boecker | 1 in 416K | 840 | Boecker | 178 |
| BR Brazil | 198as Boecker | 1 in 1.1M | 198 | Bocker | 25 |
| CA Canada | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 288K | — | Boecker | 15 |
| SE Sweden | 100 | 1 in 102K | 100 | Böcker | 6 |
| CR Costa Rica | 35 | 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Böcker is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, indefinite plural of bok
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)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Böckerb. 1818DEGerman forensic pathologist
- Conrad Böckerb. 1870DEgymnast (1870–1936)
- Julius Boeckerb. 1872DEGerman jurist (1872–1951)
- Felix Böckerb. 1931DEGerman psychiatrist
- Annelies Böckerb. 1939DEGerman politician
- Heidelore Böckerb. 1943DEGerman medievalist (1943–2019)
- Walther Boeckerb. 1952DEGerman politician
- Magnus Böckerb. 1961SESwedish businessman (1961–2017)
- Manuel Boeckerb. 1973DEGerman actor
- Nicola Böcker-Gianninib. 1975DEGerman politician
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 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 100 | #7,222 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Böcker have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Böcker in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled böcker.
- How common is the name Böcker?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 100 people named Böcker, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Böcker?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B6ckerThe 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, “Böcker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.