Baker

See also: baker and bakër

Translingual

Proper noun

Baker

1. A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist John Gilbert Baker (1834-1920).

Further reading

• Author query of the International Plant Names Index

English

Noun

Baker

1. (World War II era, joint US/RAF) radiotelephony clear-code word for the letter B.

   Synonym: Bravo

Proper noun

Baker

1. An English surname originating as an occupation for a baker, or owner of a communal oven
2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A census-designated place in San Bernardino County, California.
   2. A former unincorporated community in Kern County, California.
   3. An unincorporated community in Okaloosa County, Florida.
   4. An unincorporated community in LaSalle County, Illinois.
   5. An unincorporated community in Sullivan County, Indiana.
   6. An unincorporated community in Brown County, Kansas.
   7. A city in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.
   8. An unincorporated community and census-designated place in Clay County, Minnesota.
   9. A small inactive village in Stoddard County, Missouri.
   10. A city, the county seat of Fallon County, Montana.
   11. A ghost town in Boyd County, Nebraska.
   12. A census-designated place in White Pine County, Nevada.
   13. An unincorporated community in Benson County, North Dakota.
   14. An unincorporated community in Texas County, Oklahoma.
   15. An unincorporated community in Hardy County, West Virginia.

Alternative forms

• Backer

Derived terms

• Baker Act
• Baker City
• Baker County
• Baker day
• Bakerian
• Bakerloo
• Baker-Nunn camera
• Bakers
• Baker's cyst
• Bakersfield
• Bakerson
• Baker's paradox
• Baker Street

 

Translations

Occupational surname

• Arabic: الْخَبَّاز (al-ḵabbāz)
• Catalan: Forner
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 貝克／贝克 (zh) (Bèikè)

• Czech: Pekař
• Danish: Bager
• Dutch: Bakker (nl)
• French: Boulanger (fr)
• German: Bäcker (de), Becker (de), Beck (de)
• Greek: Ψωμάς (el) (Psomás)
• Hungarian: Pék
• Italian: Panettiere
• Polish: Piekarz
• Portuguese: Padeiro
• Russian: Хле́бников (ru) (Xlébnikov), Бейкер (Bejker)
• Spanish: Panadero
• Swedish: Bager

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Baker is the 44^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 419,586 individuals. Baker is most common among White (79.8%) and Black/African American (14.4%) individuals.

Anagrams

• Abrek, Brake, barke, brake, break

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /baˈkeɾ/ [baˈkeɾ]
• Rhymes: -eɾ
• Syllabification: Ba‧ker

Proper noun

Baker ?

1. (historical) A department of Chile