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The backer Surname

backer Name Meaning and History

  1. North German (Bäcker) and Dutch: variant of Becker.
  2. Northern English: topographic name for someone who lived on a hill or at the rear of a settlement, from Middle English bakke ‘back’, ‘spine’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
  3. Danish and Norwegian: probably of German origin (see 1), but in Norway this is also a spelling variant of the habitational name Bakker.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of backer Families in the US in 1920
Number of backer families
 122-241
 41-121
 1-40
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