Becker

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Becker (German pronunciation: [ˈbɛkɐ, -kər]) is one of the German-language surnames, along with Bäcker and Baecker, that derive from the [baːk]~[bɛk] root, which refers to baking. The surname began as a name for a baker (and thus his family). In northern Germany, it can also derive from the word Beck for Bach ("creek" or "brook") to denote origin.

Geographical distribution

As of 2014, 55.3% of all known bearers of the surname Becker were residents of Germany (frequency 1:287), 24.7% of the United States (1:2,891), 8.0% of Brazil (1:5,052), 2.7% of France (1:4,987), 2.0% of South Africa (1:5,431) and 1.2% of Canada (1:6,120).

In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than the national average (1:287) in the following states:[1]

  • 1. Saarland (1:84)
  • 2. Rhineland-Palatinate (1:123)
  • 3. Hesse (1:159)
  • 4. North Rhine-Westphalia (1:226)
  • 5. Saxony-Anhalt (1:248)

People

Surname

  • Alan Becker (born 1989), U.S. animator, YouTuber
  • Alan S. Becker (1946–2020), American lawyer and politician
  • Albert Becker (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Albrecht Becker (1906–2002), German production designer, photographer, actor, imprisoned by the Nazis for homosexuality
  • Alfred Becker, German engineer and military officer
  • Alfred G. Becker, American politician
  • Alice Becker-Ho (born 1941), French poet
  • Alisson Becker (born 1992), Brazilian footballer
  • Annika Becker (born 1981), German pole vaulter
  • Armando Becker (born 1966), Venezuelan basketball player
  • August Becker (1900–1967), German chemist
  • August Becker (1821–1887), German painter
  • August Becker (1828–1891), German author
  • B. Jay Becker (1904–1987), U.S. bridge player
  • Ben Becker (born 1964), German film and theatre actor
  • Benjamin Becker (born 1981), German tennis player
  • Bernard Becker (1920–2013), U.S. ophthalmologist
  • Bertha Becker (1920–2013), Brazilian geographer
  • Bill Becker (1916–2010), U.S. journalist, writer and world traveler
  • Bo Becker (born 1971), Swedish economist
  • Boris Becker (born 1967), German tennis player; youngest Wimbledon champion at age 17
  • Britta Becker (born 1973), German field hockey player
  • Carl Becker (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Carl Lotus Becker (1873–1945), U.S. historian, author; President of American Historical Association in 1931
  • Charles Becker (1870–1915), first U.S. police officer executed for murder
  • Charlotte Becker (born 1983), German racing cyclist
  • Christiane Luise Amalie Becker (1778–1797), German actress
  • Christine Becker, U.S. women's saber team member
  • Cole Becker (born 1995), lead singer of SWMRS
  • Cornelius Becker, German theologian (see Becker Psalter)
  • Cory Becker, U.S. guitar player (rock band: Living Things, St. Louis, MO)
  • Craig Becker (born 1956), U.S. labor attorney and professor of law
  • David Becker, U.S. guitarist
  • Diane M. Becker (1943–2021), U.S. nurse and public health scientist
  • Diego Becker (born 1997), Argentine professional footballer
  • Dietrich Becker (1620–1670), German Baroque violinist and composer
  • Dirk Becker (born 1966), German politician (SPD)
  • Donna Becker (born 1932), All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ballplayer
  • Douglas Becker, U.S./Belgian choreographer, teacher
  • Edmund Becker (born 1957), German footballer
  • Edward R. Becker (1933–2006), U.S. appeals court judge
  • Elisabeth Becker (1923–1946), German SS concentration camp guard executed for war crimes, World War II
  • Elizabeth Becker (born 1947), U.S. journalist and author
  • Emma Becker (born 1988), French writer
  • Ernest Becker (1924–1974), U.S. cultural anthropologist
  • Felicitas Becker, professor of African history
  • Franz Becker (1918–1965), German footballer
  • Gary Becker (1930–2014), U.S. Nobel Prize-winning economist
  • Gavin de Becker (born 1954), U.S. specialist: security
  • George Ferdinand Becker (1847–1919), U.S. geologist
  • Georges Becker (1846-1909), French painter
  • Germán Becker (born 1980), Argentine tango musician
  • Gustav Becker (1819–1885), German clockmaker and businessman
  • Gustavo Adolfo Becker (born 1966), Spanish high jumper
  • Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer (1836–1870), Spanish poet
  • Hans-Josef Becker (born 1948), German Catholic archbishop of Paderborn
  • Hartmut Becker (1938-2022), German actor
  • Heidi Becker (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Heinrich Becker (1770–1822), German actor
  • Heinz Becker (1915–1991), German baseball player
  • Hellmuth Becker (1902–1953), German Nazi Waffen-SS general executed for war crimes
  • Helmut Becker (1927–1990), German viticulturist
  • Herbert L. Becker (born 1956), U.S. magician and founder of IPTV
  • Hermann Becker (1887–1970), German World War I fighter ace
  • Hermann Heinrich Becker, German painter
  • Howard P. Becker (1899–1960), U.S. sociologist
  • Howard S. Becker (1928–2023), U.S. sociologist and musician
  • Hugo Becker (1863–1941), German cellist, teacher and composer
  • Hugo Becker, French actor from Metz
  • Ingrid Becker (born 1942), German athlete
  • Jacques Becker (1906–1960), French screenwriter and film director
  • Jakob Becker (1810–1872), German genre painter
  • Jean Becker (born 1938), French director, screenwriter, and actor
  • Jean Becker (1833–1884), German violinist and composer
  • Jens Becker (born 1965), German metal bass guitarist
  • Jill Becker, American psychological researcher
  • Julie Becker (1972–2016), American artist
  • Jurek Becker (1937–1997), German writer
  • Jürgen Becker (comedian) (born 1959), German cabaret artist
  • Konrad Becker (born 1959), Austrian hypermedia researcher and interdisciplinary content developer
  • Kuno Becker (born 1978), Mexican actor
  • Kurt Becker (born 1958), U.S. football player
  • Lawrence C. Becker (1939–2018), U.S. academic, philosopher
  • Leonard F. Becker (1920–1991), American politician
  • Ludwig Becker (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Lydia Becker (1827–1890), British suffragist and amateur scientist
  • Marc Becker, U.S. professor of Latin American studies
  • Marcus Becker (born 1981), German slalom canoer
  • Markus Becker (pianist) (born 1963), German pianist and academic teacher
  • Margaret Becker (born 1959), U.S. award-winning composer, singer, speaker and writer
  • Mariana Becker (born early 1970s), Brazilian sports journalist and television reporter
  • Martin Becker (1916–2006), German Luftwaffe night fighter ace
  • May Lamberton Becker (1873–1958), U.S. journalist and literary critic
  • Max Becker (1888-1960), German politician
  • Meret Becker (born 1969), German actress and singer
  • Mike Becker (born 1943), U.S. bridge player
  • Miriam Becker (1909–2000), American mathematician
  • Moritz Becker (1827–?), U.S. Deputy Sheriff and Democratic politician (WI)
  • Muriel Gustavo Becker (born 1987), Brazilian goalkeeper
  • Murilo Becker (born 1983), Brazilian basketball player
  • Nate Becker (born 1996), American football player
  • Nikolaus Becker (1809–1845), German lawyer and writer known for "Rheinlied"
  • Oskar Becker (1839–1868), German student, shot King William I of Prussia
  • Oskar Becker (1889–1964), German philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian of mathematics
  • Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker (1828–1890), German ophthalmologist
  • Paul Becker (born 1984), Canadian actor, director, choreographer and producer
  • Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), German expressionist painter
  • Philip Becker (1830–1898), U.S. Republican politician
  • Rafael Becker (born 1991), Brazilian Professional Golfer, PGA Tour player and winner of the Brazilian Open
  • Ralf Becker (born 1970), German footballer, coach and administrator
  • Ralph Elihu Becker (1907–1994), U.S. attorney and ambassador to Honduras 1976–1977
  • Ralph Elihu Becker (born 1952), U.S. attorney and Republican politician; 34th Mayor of Salt Lake City, UT
  • Richard S. Becker (1926-2015), United States Air Force flying ace
  • Rich Becker (born 1972), U.S. baseball player
  • Robert Becker, son of Russell, founder of Becker Film Group, an Australian film company
  • Robert O. Becker (1923–2008), U.S. orthopedic surgeon and electrophysiology researcher
  • Roger Becker (1934–2017), British tennis player
  • Rudolf Becker (1923–1944), German highly decorated Hauptmann in World War II; recipient of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
  • Rudolph Zacharias Becker (1752–1822), German educator and author
  • Russell Becker, founder of the Becker Group, Australian independent film and television distribution company
  • Ruth Becker (1899–1990), U.S. schoolteacher (Kansas) and Titanic survivor
  • Sally Becker, British volunteer in Bosnia and Kosovo
  • Samuel William Becker, U.S. dermatologist who documented Becker's nevus
  • Sandra Becker (born 1967), German artist
  • Sandra Lynne Becker (1947–2015), U.S. beauty queen; Miss California 1965
  • Sandro Becker (born 1971), Brazilian football player
  • Sandy Becker (1922–1996), U.S. television announcer, actor and comedian
  • Sean Becker (born 1975), New Zealand curler
  • Sherburn M. Becker (1876–1949), U.S. Republican politician (41st Mayor of Milwaukee, WI); elected at age 29 and known as the boy mayor
  • Simon Fisher-Becker (born 1961), British actor
  • Sheraldo Becker (born 1995), Surinamese footballer
  • Theodor Becker (1840–1928), German civil engineer and entomologist
  • Thorsten Becker (born 1980), German footballer
  • Thomas Becker (disambiguation), multiple people
  • Valentin Eduard Becker (1814–1890), German composer
  • Vaneta Becker, U.S. Republican politician
  • Walt Becker (born 1968), U.S. director, writer, and actor
  • Walter Becker (1950–2017), U.S. musician, songwriter and record producer
  • Wayland Becker (1910–1984), U.S. football player
  • Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1796–1846), German archaeologist
  • Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker (1753–1813), German archaeologist and author
  • William D. Becker (1876–1943), U.S. attorney and Republican politician (43rd mayor of St. Louis, Missouri); died in the crash of Waco CG-4 glider's first public demonstration
  • William W. Becker, American hotelier, co-founder of Motel 6
  • Wiren Becker, American electrical engineer
  • Wolfgang Becker (1910–2005), German film director and film editor
  • Wolfgang Becker (born 1954), German film director and screenwriter

Middle name

  • Herman Becker Fast (1887–1938), American businessman, farmer, and politician
  • Sara Becker da Silva (2005-...), Brazilian theologian

See also

References

  1. ^ Becker surname distribution
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