The baker Surname

baker Name Meaning and History

English: occupational name, from Middle English bakere, Old English bæcere, a derivative of bacan ‘to bake’. It may have been used for someone whose special task in the kitchen of a great house or castle was the baking of bread, but since most humbler households did their own baking in the Middle Ages, it may also have referred to the owner of a communal oven used by the whole village. The right to be in charge of this and exact money or loaves in return for its use was in many parts of the country a hereditary feudal privilege. Compare Miller. Less often the surname may have been acquired by someone noted for baking particularly fine bread or by a baker of pottery or bricks.
Americanized form of cognates or equivalents in many other languages, for example German Bäcker, Becker; Dutch Bakker, Bakmann; French Boulanger. For other forms see Hanks and Hodges (1988).

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4

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baker Family Facts

Distribution of baker Families in the US in 1920

Number of baker families

2396-4789

799-2395

1-798

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Bakers, Perrys McWilliams in MS/AR/TX/OK	Patty McWilliams	3
Help needed with my grandmother Rose Freda Baker	philippagrainger1	0
Maurice Baker of Anne Arundel Co.,Md.	Rod Harless	14
BAKER Lillian 1903 1988	t42FlowerM_DenCoTX	0
BAKER Roy H 1892 1927	t42FlowerM_DenCoTX	0
Hannah Gay, 1772-1811, mar. Aaron Baker, Dedham, MA	walkerbaumgardner13	1
Zachariah Baker, in Union Co, OH 1850	dianneslipkid	0
Death of Mr. Clifton Ayers Baker in Brazil	davwayell	0
BAKER, George Allison, 28 Mar 1912 - 6 DEC 1976	becca0406	0
BAKER Annie 1870 1888 wife of W E Bailey	t42FlowerM_DenCoTX	0

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