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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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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Threads: 50 - Messages: 142
ThreadAuthorReplies
Backers and Norris' of Morris County MartinBacon 3
BACKERs of Missouri Kathleen Moselle 9
Otto Backer of Colony died without heirs maryachtrh 0
Myrna Backer m George Clayton Cody Victoria Caine 3
Jacobus Backer and Margaret Stuyvesant Pam Wiley 27
backer linda backer mckee 0
Johann Backer theob 0
Baker/Backer Debbie Gallegos 0
Lilly Molla BAKER m Wm. Benjamin BLAKENEY BEVERLY 0
Hilka (Helena) Backer m Cassen P. DeVries; John Backer (both in Peoria, IL) gerber19 8
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