Popularity of the last name by country
Australia
- Victoria (8,943)
- New South Wales (2,318)
- South Australia (1,192)
- Queensland (966)
- Tasmania (719)
- Western Australia (162)
- Northern Territory (2)
All countries
- United Kingdom (451,329)
- United States (140,848)
- Australia (14,383)
- New Zealand (8,724)
- Ireland (5,090)
- Canada (4,903)
- France (4,792)
- Unknown country (3,818)
- Germany (796)
- Netherlands (713)
- Belgium (504)
- Italy (427)
- Turkey (257)
- India (236)
- Switzerland (229)
- Colombia (189)
- Sweden (184)
- Austria (178)
- Greece (158)
- Hungary (158)
- Spain (134)
- Mexico (132)
- South Africa (111)
- Denmark (108)
- Egypt (105)
- Lebanon (101)
- Finland (95)
- Argentina (80)
- Norway (67)
- Jamaica (66)
- Palestine (61)
- Russian Federation (60)
- Indonesia (58)
- Cuba (57)
- China (56)
- Peru (49)
- Singapore (49)
- Poland (41)
- Tunisia (40)
- Paraguay (38)
Origine of last name
BARKER : 1: English: occupational name for a tanner of leather from Middle English barkere ‘tanner’ tree bark having been used as the tanning agent.2: English: occupational name for a shepherd from Middle English berker bercher (Old French berchier bercher berkier berker Late Latin berbicarius from berbex ‘ram’ genitive berbicis). With the change of -ar- to -er- in Middle English this became indistinguishable from the preceding name (see 1 above).3: Americanized form of German <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Berger">Berger</a> or <a href="https://en.geneanet.org/surnames/Barger">Barger</a>.
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