Baker
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Meaning
occupational surname, "one who bakes bread"
The story
Baker has a trade inside it, and the trade has an extra loaf. The English given name comes from an occupational surname, itself from Old English bakere: someone who bakes bread. That direct description opens onto a surprisingly careful system in the London Bakers Company’s history. Bakers’ Hall assigned each baker a different identifying mark every year, allowing a loaf to be traced to its maker. Weight mattered too: the guild recounts how bakers added extra bread to avoid giving short measure. Its account of a baker’s dozen describes thirteen loaves for twelve bought, with the extra called the vantage loaf. The pleasure of the phrase lies in that small surplus: a practical precaution that leaves the customer with more bread than the number on the order suggests.
How popular is Baker around the world?
In the United States, 6,037 babies were named Baker between 2020 and 2025.
Baker is on the official records of the United States and England and Wales.
United States
1 in 3,600
In the United States, 6,037 babies were named Baker between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Baker peaked in the 2020s. Baker went to 97 US babies in 2015 and 1,765 in 2025, 18.2 times as many.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
England and Wales
1 in 84,000
In England and Wales, 7 boys named Baker were born in 2025, ranked 2,952nd among boys that year.
The count never rose above 7 in a year, too few to chart.
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Austria
last on record 2024
Baker is not on the 2025 record for Austria, which publishes every first name down to a single birth, so the name was not given there that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Live births in Austria by year of birth, 1984–2025, from Statistik Austria’s first-name statistics; spellings that differ only by special characters are counted together (umlauts stay apart), every name down to a single birth is published, and the count covers babies with Austrian citizenship only until 2009, every baby from 2010, and from 2015 also births abroad to mothers living in Austria. Shares divide by Statistik Austria’s count of live births from 2010, and before that by the file’s own total for the year. Source: Statistik Austria - data.statistik.gv.at (OGDEXT_VORNAMEN_1, updated 2026-07-09)
South Australia
last on record 2006
Baker is not on the 2017 record for South Australia, whose registry publishes every name given that year.
The count never rose above 1 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, Scotland and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Baker
Most people given the name Baker in the United States are children or teenagers today. The name belongs to this generation.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
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