Becker
Becker is one of the German-language surnames, along with Bäcker and Baecker, that derive from the root, which refers to baking. The surname began as a name for a baker. In northern Germany it can also derive from the word Beck for Bach to denote origin.
Geographical distribution
As of 2014, 55.3% of all known bearers of the surname Becker were residents of Germany, 24.7% of the United States, 8.0% of Brazil, 2.7% of France, 2.0% of South Africa and 1.2% of Canada.In Germany, the frequency of the surname was higher than national average in the following states:
- 1. Saarland
- 2. Rhineland-Palatinate
- 3. Hesse
- 4. North Rhine-Westphalia
- 5. Saxony-Anhalt
People
- Alan Becker, U.S. animator, YouTuber
- Alan S. Becker, American lawyer and politician
- Albrecht Becker, German production designer, photographer, actor, imprisoned by Nazis for homosexuality
- Alice Becker-Ho, French poet
- Alisson Becker, Brazilian football goalkeeper; usually referred to solely by his given name
- Annika Becker, German pole vaulter
- Armando Becker, Venezuelan basketball player
- August Becker, German chemist
- August Becker, German painter
- August Becker, German author
- B. Jay Becker, U.S. bridge player
- Ben Becker, German film and theatre actor
- Benjamin Becker, German tennis player
- Bernard Becker, U.S. ophthalmologist
- Bertha Becker, Brazilian geographer
- Bill Becker, U.S. journalist, writer and world traveler
- Bo Becker, Swedish economist
- Boris Becker, German tennis player; youngest Wimbledon champion at age 17
- Britta Becker, German field hockey player
- Carl Becker
- Carl Lotus Becker, U.S. historian, author; President of American Historical Association in 1931
- Chad Becker, U.S. soccer player
- Charles Becker, first U.S. police officer executed for murder
- Charlotte Becker, German professional racing cyclist
- Christiane Luise Amalie Becker, German actress
- Christine Becker, U.S. women's saber team member
- Cole Becker, lead singer of SWMRS
- Cornelius Becker, German theologian
- Cory Becker, U.S. guitar player
- Craig Becker, U.S. labor attorney and professor of law
- David Becker, U.S. guitarist
- Dietrich Becker, German Baroque violinist and composer
- Dirk Becker, German politician
- Donna Becker, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League ballplayer
- Douglas Becker, U.S./Belgian choreographer, teacher
- Edmund Becker, German footballer
- Edward Roy Becker, U.S. appeals court judge
- Elisabeth Becker, German SS concentration camp guard executed for war crimes, World War II
- Elizabeth Becker, U.S. journalist and author
- Ernest Becker, U.S. cultural anthropologist
- Franz Becker, German footballer
- Gary Becker, U.S. Nobel Prize-winning economist
- Gavin de Becker, U.S. specialist: security
- George Ferdinand Becker, U.S. geologist
- :es:Germán Becker|Germán Becker, Argentinian tango musician
- Gustav Becker, German world-class clockmaker and businessman; won gold medal at Silesia Clock Fair 1852
- Gustavo Adolfo Becker, Spanish high jumper
- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer, Spanish poet
- Hans-Josef Becker, German, Appointed Catholic archbishop of Paderborn, Germany 2003
- Heidi Becker, Austrian-born model
- Heinrich Becker, German actor
- Heinz Becker, German baseball player
- Hellmuth Becker, German Nazi Waffen-SS general executed for war crimes
- Helmut Becker, German viticulturist
- Herbert L. Becker, U.S. magician and founder of IPTV
- Howard P. Becker, U.S. sociologist
- Howard S. Becker, U.S. sociologist and musician
- Hugo Becker, German athlete
- Jacques Becker, French screenwriter and film director
- Jakob Becker, German genre painter
- Jean Becker, French director, screenwriter, and actor
- Jean Becker, German violinist and composer
- Jens Becker, German metal bass guitarist
- Julie Becker, American artist
- Jurek Becker, German writer
- Jürgen Becker, German kabarett artist
- Konrad Becker,, Austrian hypermedia researcher and interdisciplinary content developer
- Kuno Becker, Mexican actor
- Kurt Becker, U.S. professional football player
- Lawrence C. Becker, U.S. academic, philosopher
- Leonard F. Becker, American politician
- Ludwig Becker, multiple people
- Lydia Becker, British suffragist and amateur scientist
- Marc Becker, U.S. professor of Latin American studies
- Marcus Becker, German slalom canoer
- Margaret Becker, U.S. award-winning composer, singer, speaker and writer
- Martin Becker, German Luftwaffe night fighter ace
- May Lamberton Becker, U.S. journalist and literary critic
- Meret Becker, German actress and singer
- Mike Becker, U.S. bridge player
- Moritz Becker, U.S. Deputy Sheriff and Democratic politician
- Muriel Gustavo Becker, Brazilian goalkeeper
- Murilo Becker, Brazilian basketball player
- Nikolaus Becker, writer of the German “Rheinlied”
- Oskar Becker, German student; shot King William I of Prussia at 3 paces
- Oskar Becker, German philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian of mathematics
- Otto Heinrich Enoch Becker, German ophthalmologist
- Paul Becker, Canadian actor, director, choreographer and producer
- Paula Modersohn-Becker, German expressionist painter
- Philip Becker, U.S. Republican politician
- Rafael Becker, Brazilian Professional Golfer, PGA Tour player and winner of the Brazilian Open
- Ralf Becker, German footballer, coach and administrator
- Ralph Elihu Becker, U.S. attorney and ambassador to Honduras 1976–1977
- Ralph Elihu Becker, U.S. attorney and Republican politician; 34th Mayor of Salt Lake City, UT
- Rich Becker, U.S. baseball player
- Robert O. Becker, U.S. orthopedic surgeon and electrophysiology researcher
- Roger Becker, British tennis player
- Rudolf Becker, German highly decorated Hauptmann in World War II; recipient of Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
- Rudolph Zacharias Becker, German educator and author
- Ruth Becker, U.S. schoolteacher and Titanic survivor
- Sally Becker, British volunteer in Bosnia and Kosovo
- Samuel William Becker, U.S. dermatologist who documented Becker's nevus
- Sandra Becker, German artist, born 1967
- Sandra Lynne Becker, U.S. beauty queen; Miss California 1965
- Sandy Becker, U.S. television announcer, actor and comedian
- Sean Becker, New Zealand curler
- Sherburn M. Becker, U.S. Republican politician ; elected at age 29 - known as the boy mayor
- Simon Fisher-Becker, British actor
- Theodor Becker, German civil engineer and entomologist
- Thorsten Becker, German footballer
- Thomas Becker
- Valentin Eduard Becker, German composer
- Vaneta Becker, U.S. Republican politician
- Walt Becker, U.S. director, writer, and actor
- Walter Becker, U.S. musician, songwriter and record producer
- Wayland Becker, U.S. football player
- Wilhelm Adolf Becker, German archaeologist
- Wilhelm Gottlieb Becker, German archaeologist and author
- William D. Becker, U.S. attorney and Republican politician ; died in crash of Waco CG-4 glider's first public demonstration
- William W. Becker, American hotelier, co-founder of Motel 6
- Wolfgang Becker, German filmmaker