Backer

3,154 people in the United States were counted with the surname Backer in the 2020 census, making it the 9,801st most common in the country. That is about one person in 94,800.

By the numbers

People: 3,154
Rank: 9,801st
How common: 1 in 94,800
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

As a German (Bäcker) and occasionally Danish surname, variant of Becker. Compare also Baecker.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Backer described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 87.5%
Black, not Hispanic 4.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Backer

Harriet Backer (1845–1932)Norwegian painter
Jacob Adriaensz Backer (1608–1651)Dutch Golden Age painter
Jean De Backer (born 1850)Belgian water polo player
Kristiane Backer (born 1965)German television journalist

People named Backer with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Backer

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.