Baker
Baker was given to 1,640 boys in 2025, #217 among boys’ names; 8,982 Americans have been recorded with it since 1895 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 8,580 Americans named Baker and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 7.
Baker came back: it left the boys’ top 1,000 after 1899 and returned in 2018.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Baker by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Baker mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Baker is “a male given name transferred from the surname.”
/ˈbeɪkɚ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Baker?
#217 among boys’ names, 2025
Baker rose from #1,753 in 2015 to #217 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 1.0 per 1,000.
1,765 babies in 2025, the peak
Baker peaked in 2025, when 1,765 babies were given it (1,640 boys, #217 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 1,091 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,640 | #217 | 1.0 |
| 2024 | 1,091 | #315 | 0.63 |
| 2023 | 798 | #397 | 0.47 |
| 2022 | 713 | #434 | 0.41 |
| 2021 | 681 | #449 | 0.39 |
| 2020 | 544 | #524 | 0.32 |
| 2019 | 620 | #473 | 0.35 |
| 2018 | 340 | #713 | 0.19 |
| 2017 | 165 | #1,149 | 0.09 |
| 2016 | 156 | #1,208 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #1,753 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 68 | #2,064 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 66 | #2,045 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,382 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 52 | #2,406 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 49 | #2,516 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,144 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 52 | #2,433 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 68 | #2,038 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 35 | #3,090 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 49 | #2,365 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,219 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 35 | #2,785 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,887 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 26 | #3,325 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 25 | #3,303 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 27 | #3,034 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 24 | #3,198 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,259 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,749 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 20 | #3,309 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,421 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 26 | #2,699 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,583 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 20 | #3,109 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #3,986 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,280 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,174 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #3,984 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 11 | #3,898 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,187 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 10 | #3,940 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,645 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,442 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,670 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,541 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,165 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #4,778 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 5 | #3,963 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,059 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,540 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,533 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,476 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,752 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,594 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,041 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,108 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #2,408 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,011 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,645 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #2,987 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,720 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,167 | under 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,336 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,465 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #2,977 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,759 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,303 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,199 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,881 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #3,623 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,782 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,198 | under 0.01 |
| 1927 | 14 | #2,208 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,578 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 15 | #2,097 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,042 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,027 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,384 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,056 | 0.02 |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,521 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,005 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 13 | #2,194 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,203 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,709 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 11 | #1,980 | 0.02 |
| 1912 | 9 | #1,759 | 0.02 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,219 | 0.04 |
| 1900 | 5 | #1,325 | 0.03 |
| 1899 | 6 | #939 | 0.06 |
| 1895 | 5 | #1,091 | 0.04 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Baker a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,982 Americans recorded as Baker, 8% are girls and 92% boys. In 2025 it went to 125 girls and 1,640 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Baker: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Baker, and how old are they?
8,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 8,982 Americans ever recorded as Baker. The median Baker alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 7.
The 2020 Census counted 3,081 people named Baker (315 women and girls, 2,766 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,768 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 21 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 43 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 29 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 191 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 659 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,630 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Baker born?
The states with the most babies named Baker are Texas, Oklahoma and Florida, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Oklahoma is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 176 | #257 | 0.9× |
| Oklahoma | 89 | #35 | 3.8× |
| Florida | 82 | #250 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 78 | #175 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 75 | #141 | 1.7× |
| Ohio | 70 | #198 | 1.0× |
| Missouri | 65 | #119 | 1.2× |
| Georgia | 64 | #217 | 1.0× |
| Indiana | 63 | #131 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 60 | #166 | 0.6× |
Where Baker is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Baker is most over-represented in Oklahoma: since 1910 it was given 3.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Baker with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 9,109 babies since 1880, Baker is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,765 of their 1,818 babies (97%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Baker
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Baker and names like it
- Compare Baker and BaykerBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBaker peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Baker since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Baker: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Baker.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Baker alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.