Bakker Family Name and Heraldry

Arms linked to Bäcker and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

The meaning behind Bakker

Search old registers for Bakker and you will soon meet Bäcker too. In origin, the name means “Baker”.

Before spelling was fixed, Bäcker was also written Bakker. The 2010 US Census counted 3,392 people named Bakker, ranking it number 9,583 among American surnames. That puts it inside the top 10,000 US surnames. Spanish register data show 262 residents carrying Bakker as first surname, and 50 as second surname. Each Spaniard has two surnames, so the same name is counted once as first and once as second surname. Similar-sounding surnames on Herald Lab: Baker and Bakere.

Get the complete Bakker report, with a museum-style coat of arms.