Becker

Becker is the 367th most common surname in the United States, shared by 84,525 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 3,536.

By the numbers

People: 84,525
Rank: 367th
How common: 1 in 3,536
Per 100,000: 28.3

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Becker

Boris Becker (born 1967)German tennis player, coach, and commentator
Alisson Becker (born 1992)Brazilian association football player
Gary S. Becker (1930–2014)American economist
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907)German expressionist painter
Jacques Becker (1906–1960)French screenwriter and film director
Jason Becker (born 1969)American guitarist and composer
Benjamin Becker (born 1981)German tennis player
Wolfgang Becker (1954–2024)German film director and screenwriter

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

Surnames like Becker

Also a first name

Becker has been given to 527 American babies as a first name since 1989, peaking in 2018. See it as a given name.

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.