Last name origins & meanings:
- North German (Bäcker) and Dutch: variant of
Becker.
- Northern English: topographic name for someone who
lived on a hill or at the rear of a settlement, from Middle English
bakke ‘back’, ‘spine’ + the suffix -er denoting an
inhabitant.
- Danish and Norwegian: probably of German origin
(see 1), but in Norway this is also a spelling variant of the
habitational name Bakker.
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