Booker Name Origin, Meaning and Family History

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Surname Distribution

Census frequency by county

Name Concentrations Within England and Wales

England

Bedfordshire 5
Buckinghamshire 10
Berkshire 142
Cambridgeshire 1
Channel Islands 0
Cheshire 40
Cornwall 5
Cumberland 1
Derbyshire 352
Devon 20
Dorset 18
Durham 16
Essex 94
Gloucestershire 65
Hampshire 163
Herefordshire 3
Hertfordshire 10
Huntingdonshire 0
Isle of Man 0
Kent 429
Lancashire 139
Leicestershire 13
Lincolnshire 23
London 669
Middlesex 171
Northumberland 4
Norfolk 10
Northamptonshire 17
Nottinghamshire 106
Oxfordshire 29
Rutland 0
Shropshire 9
Suffolk 15
Somerset 20
Surrey 311
Sussex 624
Staffordshire 191
Warwickshire 164
Westmorland 2
Wiltshire 31
Worcestershire 27
Yorkshire 908

Wales

Anglesey 0
Brecknockshire 1
Cardiganshire 0
Carnarvonshire 0
Carmarthenshire 2
Denbighshire 2
Flintshire 6
Glamorgan 53
Merionethshire 0
Montgomeryshire 0
Monmouthshire 1
Pembrokeshire 4
Radnorshire 0

Booker Surname Statistics


Top Professions for the Booker family

Profession Census Frequency
School 439
Farm Labourer 51
General Servant (domestic) 45
General Labourer 43
Coal Miner Hewer 39
Private Means 34
Scholar 33
Labourer 32
Charwoman 21
None 19
Farmer 19
Carpenter 18
Assisting In The Business 16
At Home 16
Domestic Servant 16
General Servant Domestic 16
Cook (domestic) 16
Gardener Domestic 16
Gardener (domestic) 14
Laundress 14
Dressmaker 13
House Painter 13
Labourer On Farm 13
At School 12
Bricklayer 12

Most Frequent Forenames for Booker

Name Census Frequency
William Booker 1,783
Mary Booker 1,646
John Booker 1,424
George Booker 1,285
Elizabeth Booker 1,031
Sarah Booker 893
Thomas Booker 886
James Booker 847
Charles Booker 705
Henry Booker 661
Ann Booker 564
Eliza Booker 439
Emma Booker 420
Emily Booker 407
Jane Booker 400
Alice Booker 394
Alfred Booker 386
Ellen Booker 373
Joseph Booker 355
Annie Booker 351
Frederick Booker 329
Edward Booker 302
Hannah Booker 284
Albert Booker 275
Arthur Booker 261

Booker Surname Variants Ranking

Rank Surname Match Census Frequency
1 Baker 67% 496,267
2 Booker 100% 27,722
3 Bowker 83% 20,027
4 Buker 67% 3,304
5 Boker 83% 469
6 Beaker 67% 371
7 Beker 67% 270
8 Bouker 83% 251
9 Beeker 67% 221
10 Biker 67% 199
11 Boaker 83% 117

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The surname Booker is the 2nd most popular variant of Baker.

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