Meaning not yet researched.
Baker: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,640 in 2025. Its best rank was #217 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 93% of babies named Baker in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#217 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Baker: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,640 boys in 2025. Peak: #217 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 1,640 (2025).
In 2025, 1,640 US boys were named Baker, making it the 217th most common boys’ name of the year, up 98 places from #315 in 2024. That is 549 more than the 1,091 boys named Baker in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #217, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,640. For comparison, it was #1,753 in 2015 and #2,595 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Baker in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 5 babies. In all, 8,982 US babies have been given the name, 8.3% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 6,037 babies named Baker.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,748 US boys were named Baker; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 1,640. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,042 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Baker ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #35 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 6 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Bayker, Bakar and Baqir are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bayker (72), Bakar (6), Baqir (6), Bakir (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Baker in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 9 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 84 | #35 | #416 |
| North Dakota | 17 | #61 | — |
| Nebraska | 36 | #63 | — |
| Kansas | 46 | #74 | — |
| South Dakota | 15 | #77 | — |
| Iowa | 39 | #92 | — |
| Wisconsin | 57 | #105 | — |
| Alabama | 45 | #116 | — |
| Missouri | 60 | #119 | — |
| Arkansas | 29 | #120 | — |
| West Virginia | 15 | #129 | — |
| Indiana | 63 | #131 | — |
| Tennessee | 67 | #141 | #833 |
| Minnesota | 45 | #143 | — |
| Montana | 9 | #149 | — |
| Idaho | 18 | #151 | — |
| Michigan | 60 | #166 | — |
| Washington | 51 | #167 | #762 |
| Maine | 7 | #173 | — |
| Louisiana | 29 | #174 | #820 |
| North Carolina | 71 | #175 | #1,133 |
| Kentucky | 31 | #181 | — |
| Utah | 29 | #186 | — |
| Ohio | 64 | #198 | — |
| Mississippi | 15 | #201 | #534 |
| Georgia | 56 | #217 | — |
| Colorado | 29 | #222 | — |
| South Carolina | 25 | #225 | — |
| Virginia | 37 | #234 | — |
| Oregon | 17 | #248 | — |
| Florida | 82 | #250 | — |
| Texas | 153 | #257 | #1,550 |
| Illinois | 41 | #269 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #292 | — |
| Arizona | 24 | #321 | — |
| Nevada | 7 | #394 | — |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #474 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #505 | — |
| California | 57 | #537 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #636 | — |
| New York | 22 | #665 | — |
| New Jersey | 8 | #779 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 125 | #1,656 | 1,640 | #217 |
| 2024 | 88 | #2,155 | 1,091 | #315 |
| 2023 | 84 | #2,235 | 798 | #397 |
| 2022 | 94 | #2,051 | 713 | #434 |
| 2021 | 104 | #1,900 | 681 | #449 |
| 2020 | 75 | #2,345 | 544 | #524 |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,282 | 620 | #473 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,013 | 340 | #713 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,389 | 165 | #1,149 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,451 | 156 | #1,208 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,258 | 87 | #1,753 |
| 2014 | 7 | #13,289 | 68 | #2,065 |
| 2013 | — | — | 66 | #2,046 |
| 2012 | 6 | #15,252 | 53 | #2,383 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,515 | 52 | #2,407 |
| 2010 | — | — | 49 | #2,517 |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,716 | 63 | #2,145 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,759 | 52 | #2,434 |
| 2007 | 5 | #18,028 | 68 | #2,038 |
| 2006 | — | — | 35 | #3,091 |
| 2005 | — | — | 49 | #2,369 |
| 2004 | — | — | 30 | #3,223 |
| 2003 | — | — | 35 | #2,789 |
| 2002 | — | — | 32 | #2,891 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,330 |
| 2000 | — | — | 25 | #3,309 |
| 1999 | — | — | 27 | #3,038 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,202 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,264 |
| 1996 | — | — | 27 | #2,754 |
| 1995 | — | — | 20 | #3,314 |
| 1994 | — | — | 8 | #6,427 |
| 1993 | — | — | 26 | #2,705 |
| 1992 | — | — | 12 | #4,590 |
| 1991 | — | — | 20 | #3,115 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #3,992 |
| 1989 | — | — | 12 | #4,286 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,179 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #3,989 |
| 1986 | — | — | 11 | #3,902 |
| 1985 | — | — | 7 | #5,192 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #3,943 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,646 |
| 1979 | — | — | 8 | #4,444 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #5,672 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,543 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,167 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #4,780 |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #3,964 |
| 1962 | — | — | 8 | #3,060 |
| 1959 | — | — | 11 | #2,541 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,534 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,477 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #3,753 |
| 1950 | — | — | 9 | #2,595 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,042 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,109 |
| 1946 | — | — | 10 | #2,409 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,012 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,646 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #2,988 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,721 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,168 |
| 1940 | — | — | 10 | #2,336 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,466 |
| 1935 | — | — | 7 | #2,977 |
| 1934 | — | — | 8 | #2,760 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,304 |
| 1932 | — | — | 12 | #2,199 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #2,882 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,625 |
| 1929 | — | — | 9 | #2,784 |
| 1928 | — | — | 5 | #4,200 |
| 1927 | — | — | 14 | #2,208 |
| 1926 | — | — | 11 | #2,580 |
| 1925 | — | — | 15 | #2,098 |
| 1924 | — | — | 9 | #3,043 |
| 1923 | — | — | 16 | #2,028 |
| 1922 | — | — | 14 | #2,251 |
| 1921 | — | — | 13 | #2,385 |
| 1920 | — | — | 16 | #2,057 |
| 1919 | — | — | 11 | #2,522 |
| 1918 | — | — | 16 | #2,006 |
| 1917 | — | — | 13 | #2,195 |
| 1916 | — | — | 7 | #3,204 |
| 1915 | — | — | 17 | #1,710 |
| 1914 | — | — | 11 | #1,981 |
| 1912 | — | — | 9 | #1,760 |
| 1904 | — | — | 5 | #1,220 |
| 1900 | — | — | 5 | #1,326 |
| 1899 | — | — | 6 | #940 |
| 1895 | — | — | 5 | #1,092 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).