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Booker

#1,160 in 2025Boys' name

Maker of books

Booker has been given to 12,235 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #1,160 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1916, with 294 recorded.

Babies named Booker, 2025

1 in 18,400

Booker over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Booker: meaning, origin, and history

Maker of books

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Booker means

Booker means “maker of books”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 12,230 boys were recorded with the name Booker between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 294 in 1916; its best national rank was #177 in 1910.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,659 in 2020 to #1,160 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,386 in 2015 to #1,160 in 2025.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Booker between 1925 and 1925. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1925; its best national rank was #5,069 in 1925.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Booker?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,400
180 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,490
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,160
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,767 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Booker sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,767 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Booker. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bookers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Booker was born before 1938 — so the typical Booker is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
16.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,416
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1910s — 16.8% of all recorded uses (2,051).

Is Booker rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+130
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+499
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,226
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.2%
Peak was 1916 (294)
Years since peak
109
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#177
1910

Spellings of Booker

Booker is not the most common spelling — Cooper is, with 77.9% against Booker's 7.7%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Booker is used

Across 2016–2025, Booker was most concentrated in South Dakota — about 1 in 3,448 boys, against 1 in 17,854 across all states with data. It was least common in Florida (1 in 100,000).

129 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Dakota1 in 3,448
  2. 2Arizona1 in 3,846
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 5,000
  4. 4Utah1 in 7,692
  5. 5Washington1 in 8,333
  6. 6Ohio1 in 9,091
  7. 7Indiana1 in 10,000
  8. 8Oregon1 in 11,111

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Booker around the world

Where Booker ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • Canada
    2016–2023
    #1,853
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2002–2004
    #589
    in 2004

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Booker

People whose public names include Booker, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Booker by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,160
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 499
Best rank ever
#177
1910
Peak year
1916
294 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
12,230
Count in 2025
180

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,069
1925
Peak year
1925
5 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
1925
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Booker

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Booker

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Booker, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

OllieClementMonroeBasilHollisEmileHerschelOlinFreemanCyrilWaltonEverette

Sibling names for Booker

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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