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Baker Name Meaning
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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Name Distribution of Baker Families
MAP:
United States
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Baker families
 2,396 - 4,789  799 - 2,395 |
 1 - 798  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Baker families
|
6,020 - 12,037 2,007 - 6,019 |
1 - 2,006 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Baker families
|
122 - 242 41 - 121 |
1 - 40 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Baker Family Origin
Baker Immigration Information
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Baker Family Occupations
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