Becker
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
See also: becker
Translingual
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Becker
- A botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist Johannes Becker (1769–1833).
Further reading
[edit]English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Becker (countable and uncountable, plural Beckers)
- (countable) A surname.
- An English habitational surname from Old Norse from Old Norse bekkr (“brook”).
- An English surname from Old English [in turn originating as an occupation] from Old English becca (“mattock”) for a mattock or pickaxe maker.
- A surname from German [in turn originating as an occupation] from German Becker from Beck (“baker”).
- A locale in the United States.
- A city in Minnesota; named for politician George Loomis Becker.
- An unincorporated community in Mississippi.
- An unincorporated community in Texas.
- (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
Alternative forms
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- According to the 2010 United States Census, Backer is the 357th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 87,859 individuals. Becker is most common among White (94.9%) individuals.
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]German
[edit]![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7f/Verteilung_Nachname_Becker_DE.png/250px-Verteilung_Nachname_Becker_DE.png)
Etymology
[edit]From Beck (“baker”) (from Middle High German becke), or a variant spelling of southern German Bäcker (“baker”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Audio: (file)
Proper noun
[edit]Becker m or f (proper noun, surname, masculine genitive Beckers or (with an article) Becker, feminine genitive Becker, plural Beckers or Becker)
- a common surname originating as an occupation
Categories:
- Translingual lemmas
- Translingual proper nouns
- mul:Botanical author abbreviations
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- English countable nouns
- English surnames
- English surnames from Old Norse
- English terms derived from Old Norse
- English surnames from Old English
- English surnames from occupations
- English terms derived from Old English
- English surnames from German
- English terms borrowed from German
- English terms derived from German
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Cities in Minnesota, USA
- en:Cities in the United States
- en:Places in Minnesota, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Mississippi, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in the United States
- en:Places in Mississippi, USA
- en:Unincorporated communities in Texas, USA
- en:Places in Texas, USA
- English given names
- English male given names
- English male given names from surnames
- German terms derived from Middle High German
- German terms with audio links
- German lemmas
- German proper nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German feminine nouns
- German nouns with multiple genders
- German surnames
- German surnames from occupations