Baker
Baker stands at #217 nationally in 2025, and it is climbing. Its record runs from 1895 through a 2025 peak, 8,234 children in all.
Baker’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Baker, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Baker since 1895
Baker is at its all-time peak right now: #217 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Baker is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Baker runs strongest in North Dakota at 0.51% in 2025, then Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Baker
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Bentley
#215 in 2025
Brayden
#229 in 2025
Brynlee
#243 in 2025
Braxton
#172 in 2025
Barrett
#171 in 2025
Beckham
#168 in 2025
Bryson
#152 in 2025
Brielle
#143 in 2025
Browse: names starting with B · all names
About Baker
How common is Baker today?
Baker stands at #217 nationally in 2025, and it is climbing. The chart above draws the whole run since 1895, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
What is the recorded meaning of Baker?
Baker postdates the reference we are able to quote, so no meaning is shown; the popularity record above is the fact this page can stand on.
Which names sit near Baker?
By our fixed recipe the closest are Bentley, Brayden and Brynlee, scored on origin, era, shape and how common they are. The sibling matcher runs the same recipe against the names already in your house.
Get Baker’s free Name Kit
Five printables made in your browser: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Yours in a moment, for one email.
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