The BACKER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	3,264	9189	0.001	12
United States (1880 census)	1,492	3852	0.003	30
Change since 1880	+1772	-5337	-0.002	-18
Other Countries
Australia	43	28630	0	3
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for BACKER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	390	7081	0.001	12
New York	356	5506	0.002	19
Florida	246	7843	0.002	15
Minnesota	226	2884	0.005	46
Missouri	175	4225	0.003	31
Top States for BACKER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
North Dakota	68	1326	0.011	106
Nebraska	98	2298	0.006	57
Minnesota	226	2884	0.005	46
South Dakota	28	4702	0.004	37
Montana	33	4140	0.004	37

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

Classification and Origin of BACKER

Region of origin: Europe

Country of origin: Germany

Language of origin: German

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BACKER 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.

Ethnic distribution of BACKER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	146	4.47
White (Hispanic)	49	1.5
Mixed Race	42	1.29
Native American/Alaskan	18	0.55
Asian/Pacific	17	0.52
White (Caucasian)	2,992	91.67

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

Similar names to BACKER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BACKER.

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.