Böker
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Zumeist wohl zu mnd. boke ‘Buche’; mögliche Konkurrenz zu Herkunfts-/Wohnstättennamen
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Böker is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 32K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 9Kas Booker
- ILIsrael1 in 14Kas בוקר
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 Böker 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
36,840 named Booker, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Boeker in US United States, CH Switzerland, ML Mali and 1 more and בוקר in IL Israel.
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)
Zumeist wohl zu mnd. boke ‘Buche’; mögliche Konkurrenz zu Herkunfts-/Wohnstättennamen. Dentalvarianz d/t; 4172 Tokens.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Böker 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 | 36,840as Booker | 1 in 9K | 37K | Boeker | 185 |
| DE Germany | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Böker | 73 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Boeker | 1 |
| ML Mali | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Boeker | 1 |
| IL Israel | 615as בוקר | 1 in 14K | 615 | בוקר | 35 |
| GY Guyana | 179as Booker | 1 in 4.2K | 179 | — | — |
| GD Grenada | 21as Booker | 1 in 5.4K | 21 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 19 | 1 in 442K | 19 | Boeker | 5 |
36,840 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling booker. 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; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)
Böker is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Berufsname; teils auch zu mnd. böker 'Schläger, Klopfhammer, Stampfer'. Dentale-Plosiv-Variation. Belegt 4172 Träger.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In German, Berufsname zu Bäcker; zeigt d-Schwund bzw. d/t-Variation. 4172 Tokens.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 2: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen II, Konsonantismus
In nds (Germany), plural of Book
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)
- Carl Bökerb. 1836DEGerman painter (1836-1905)
- Moritz Bökerb. 1853DEGerman engineer (1853–1933)
- Robert Bökerb. 1885DEGerman engineer and historian of science (1885-1980)
- Hans Bökerb. 1886DEGerman zoologist (1886-1939)
- Alexander Bökerb. 1912DEGerman journalist (1912–1997)
- Wolfgang Bökerb. 1933DEGerman psychiatrist (1933–2024)
- Uwe Bökerb. 1940DEGerman philologist
- Johann Josef Bökerb. 1953DEGerman university teacher
- Markus Bökerb. 1966DEGerman actor
- Alexander Bökerb. 1973DEchemist and university teacher
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 5 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 19 | #37,994 |
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
- What does the name Böker mean?
- Recorded meaning: Zumeist wohl zu mnd. boke ‘Buche’; mögliche Konkurrenz zu Herkunfts-/Wohnstättennamen.
- In which country does Böker have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 37 thousand people named Booker, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Böker?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 19 people named Böker in 2024, about 1 in 442 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B6kerThe 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, “Böker”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.