The BLAKER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	1,571	16745	0.001	6
United States (1880 census)	448	10548	0.001	9
Change since 1880	+1123	-6197	0	-3
Other Countries
Australia	97	14599	0.001	6
United Kingdom	365	11141	0.001	8

Top States for BLAKER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Pennsylvania	213	7697	0.002	17
Michigan	135	10098	0.001	14
California	101	24461	0.000	3
Florida	93	19408	0.001	6
Texas	93	17316	0.000	4
Top States for BLAKER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Idaho	24	7988	0.002	19
Pennsylvania	213	7697	0.002	17
West Virginia	26	6180	0.001	14
Michigan	135	10098	0.001	14
Indiana	82	9457	0.001	13

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BLAKER live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BLAKER represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BLAKER in Pennsylvania than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BLAKER by picking someone at random in Idaho than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BLAKER

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Occupational Name

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BLAKER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BLAKER surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BLAKER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	17	1.08
White (Hispanic)	17	1.08
Black/African American	16	1.02
White (Caucasian)	1,507	95.93
Asian/Pacific	Less than 100	Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan	Less than 100	Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BLAKER surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BLAKER in historical publications

BLAKER. BLACKER. Cotgrave defines a blaclur as noirehsseur. The hitter word he Englishes by " blacker, blackener, lleacke?;" &c., tlius confounding two opposite ideas, and literally "making white black." The truth is, that the A-Sax. hlao, iinaccented, means black, while Mac signifies pale or white, and the derivative verb, hh'ician, to bleach, or make pale. The Promptorium malies ' bleykester' and ' whytster' synonjanous, and explains them by cand'uJarius, a whitener or bleacher of linen, which is doubtless the meaning of this surname. Blncre, apparently used as a baptismal name, is found in Domesd. The 131ackers of co. Armagh, derive themselves traditionally from I'lacar, a Northman chief who settled at Dublin early in the X. cent. Burke's Commoners, ii. -18.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.

Similar names to BLAKER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BLAKER.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.