Booker

At the 2020 census, 35,648 Americans bore the surname Booker — 965th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 8,385.

By the numbers

People: 35,648
Rank: 965th
How common: 1 in 8,385
Per 100,000: 11.9

Where the name comes from

Origin an occupational name

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

Who bears the name

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

Black, not Hispanic 62.7%
White, not Hispanic 27.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 6.0%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Booker

Cory Booker (born 1969)American politician
Devin Booker (born 1996)American basketball player
Trevor Booker (born 1987)American basketball player
Cedella Booker (1926–2008)Mother of Bob Marley
James Booker (1939–1983)American musician and singer
Devin Booker (born 1991)American basketball player

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

Surnames like Booker

Also a first name

Booker has been given to 12,235 American babies as a first name since 1882, peaking in 1916. 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.