The BAKER surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	413,351	38	0.153	1,532
United States (1880 census)	112,366	25	0.225	2,247
Change since 1880	+300985	-13	-0.072	-715
Other Countries
Australia	21,828	35	0.134	1,335
United Kingdom	84,046	39	0.183	1,830

Top States for BAKER by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	29,400	53	0.141	1,410
California	29,376	70	0.087	867
Ohio	25,606	17	0.226	2,255
Florida	24,825	44	0.155	1,553
Pennsylvania	18,338	24	0.149	1,493
Top States for BAKER by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Kentucky	11,477	17	0.284	2,840
Delaware	2,098	22	0.268	2,677
Oklahoma	8,259	23	0.239	2,393
Alabama	10,556	36	0.237	2,374
Vermont	1,431	14	0.235	2,350

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

Classification and Origin of BAKER

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 BAKER 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 BAKER 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 BAKER in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Caucasian)	339,279	82.08
Black/African American	56,340	13.63
Mixed Race	6,366	1.54
White (Hispanic)	6,076	1.47
Native American/Alaskan	3,431	0.83
Asian/Pacific	1,860	0.45

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

Similar names to BAKER

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BAKER.

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.