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Last name: BECKER

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All you have to know about the last name BECKER

Last name frequency

BECKER : This last name is indexed 1,289,644 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

BECKER : 1: German and Dutch: occupational name for a baker of bread or brick and tiles derived from Middle High German and Middle Dutch backen ‘to bake’. The German surname is also found in France (mainly Lorraine and Alsace).2: Danish: occupational name for a baker from bechere ‘baker’.3: Jewish (Ashkenazic): occupational name for a baker from German Bäcker (compare 1 and Backer) or Yiddish beker ‘baker’.4: English: possibly an occupational name derived from an unrecorded Middle English bekker ‘maker or user of mattocks’ (a derivative of Middle English bek(ke) ‘mattock pick’).

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Most indexed places

Paris (11,270)
Amsterdam (7,173)
Waldbreitbach, Rheinland, Preußen (6,036)
Missouri (4,527)
Gonsenheim (4,233)
Germany (3,360)
Strasbourg (2,838)
Püttlingen (2,692)
New York (2,665)
Sankt Katharina Katholisch, Busenbach, Karlsruhe, Baden (2,587)
Hannover, Hannover, Preußen (2,577)
Bremen (2,484)
Kusel (2,477)
Berlin, Preußen (2,346)
Freybouse (2,256)
Antwerpen (2,155)
Kaiserslautern (2,115)
Rotterdam (2,063)
Altenkirchen (ba. Homburg) (2,062)
Metz (2,047)
Muelheim An Der Ruhr, Rheinland (2,044)
Paris 19e (2,001)
Baltimore (1,911)
Kusel,pfalz,bavaria (1,905)
New (1,873)
Grebenau (Kr. Alsfeld) (1,866)
Altenkirchen (Ba. Homburg) (1,853)
Evangelisch-Reformierte,altenkirchen,pfalz,bavaria (1,834)
Sankt Dionysius Katholisch, Thuelen, Westfalen (1,832)
Thülen, Westfalen, Preussen (1,824)
Katholisch,ebersheim,rheinhessen,hesse-Darmstadt (1,748)
Gonsenheim, Rheinhessen (1,739)
Oberkirchen, Rheinland (1,727)
Waldhambach (1,703)
Koenigsmacker (1,602)
Freybouse, 57239 (1,578)
Pfungstadt (1,556)
Katholisch,gebhardshain,rheinland (1,535)
Katholisch, Gonsenheim, Rheinhessen, Hesse-Darmstadt (1,534)
Berlin (1,526)
Lisdorf (1,479)
Hagen Hamm, Westfalen (1,470)
Maastricht (1,436)
Langensteinbach, Karlsruhe, Baden (1,420)
Oberseebach (1,387)
Mulhouse (1,371)
Berghausen, Durlach, Baden (1,368)
Etzenhofen (1,352)
Frankfurt (Main), Hessen-Nassau, Preußen (1,342)
Stadtpfarrei Evangelisch, Darmstadt, Starkenburg, Hesse-Darm (1,337)
Deutschland (1,317)
Pontpierre (1,316)
Breidenbach, Hessen-Nassau (1,302)
Muelheim An Der Ruhr,rheinland (1,298)
Pantin (1,293)
Paris 11e (1,275)
Nalbach (1,259)
Siegen, Westfalen (1,249)
Grosbliederstroff (1,248)
Kusel, Pfalz, Bavaria (1,241)

Most indexed countries

Germany (691,043)
France (238,709)
United States (88,422)
Netherlands (40,408)
Belgium (30,380)
Denmark (11,161)
Luxembourg (9,662)
Switzerland (8,315)
Austria (8,095)
Hungary (7,807)
United Kingdom (6,379)
Sweden (6,203)
Romania (5,472)
Brazil (5,178)
Russian Federation (5,105)
Algeria (3,149)
Canada (2,695)
Latvia (2,664)

Available collections for this name

Archives
(704,422)
Family Trees
(489,794)
Newspapers
(62,650)
Books
(19,917)
Cemeteries
(4,866)
Other
(4,675)
Obituaries
(1,540)
Magazines
(1,079)
Memorials
(651)
Coats of Arms
(46)
Memory of places
(4)