Baker — #313 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Baker

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,591 babies named Baker between 1895 and 2024, spanning 130 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Baker currently holds the #313 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 1,089 babies received it in a single year. Baker is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 623 additional births since 2007.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Baker performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 3,824 births during that ten-year window. Across the 14 decades of recorded activity, Baker shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 573 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Baker in 40 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Baker in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,591 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.