Bachelder Surname

190,963rd
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 2,208 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Guam

Bachelder Surname Definition:

This surname is derived from an official title. 'the bachelor,' a young knight, member of a guild, an unmarried man.

John le Bachiler, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Nicholas le Bacheler, Oxfordshire, ibid.

William le Bacheler, Cambridgeshire, ibid.

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Bachelder Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States2,0121:180,14918,011
Canada1701:216,73920,919
Guam81:20,0153,029
Ecuador51:3,181,16927,617
Australia31:8,998,567200,784
Sweden31:3,282,252190,759
Thailand31:23,546,115908,588
England11:55,718,059489,080
Germany11:80,505,459560,955
Poland11:38,008,749231,653
Singapore11:5,507,70347,049
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
England191:1,282,91446,315
PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
United States8691:57,7896,419

Bachelder Surname Meaning

From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history

This surname is derived from an official title. 'the bachelor,' a young knight, member of a guild, an unmarried man.

John le Bachiler, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Nicholas le Bacheler, Oxfordshire, ibid.

William le Bacheler, Cambridgeshire, ibid.

Magg' (Margaret) Bacheler, Huntingdonshire, ibid.

Jordan le Bacheler. Calendarium Genealogicum.

Gilbert le Bacholer. Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinesi.

1621. William Batcheler, Oxfordshire: Register of the University of Oxford.

1651. Thomas Funston to Cassandria Batchler: St. Mary Aldermary.

Abraham Ridder, batchler, to Jane Parsons, vergin: ibid.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

This surname is derived from an official title, 'the bachelor'; v. Batchelar and Batchelder.

Jordan le Bachiler, Oxfordshire, 1273. Hundred Rolls.

Robert Bachelere, Wiltshire, ibid.

1583. Edmund Bachelor and Elizabeth Swinson: Marriage Lic I London).

1600. William Bachiler, Worcestershire: Register of the University of Oxford.

1610. Stephen Bachiler, Hampshire: ibid.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames (1896) by Charles Wareing Endell Bardsley

(1) Probably from the office of bacularius (LL.), corresponding to usher, or (2) from LL. baccalarius holder or tenant of a small farm. William Bacheler, burgess of Haddington, rendered homage in 1296 (Bain, II, p. 197), and John de Luss is mentioned in 1316 as bacularius of Robert I. David Bachetar was serjeant of Forfar in 1472 (Laing), Adam Bachiler was "meseinger til our Souerane Lord" in 1476 (SCM., V, p. 25), William Batchler in Rakmure of the Mains of Stradichty, 1598, and four more of the name are recorded in the Commissariot Record of St. Andrews, James Bachlar in Easthills of Carmyllie, 1637 (Brechin), and Andrew Batchlar at Craigend of Moncrieff, 1652 (Dunblane). In 1665 the name appears disguised as Besler and Beseler (Jervise, I, p. 202), and Baisler is the popular pronunciation of the name in Perthshire and Angus. Margaret Baisler was married in Edinburgh in 1668 (Edinb. Marr.: the only one of the name here listed), and John Basslour appears in Heughead of Guthrie, 1686 (Brechin). Batcheller 1693.

The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

(English) The holder, or tenant, of a small farm; an officer or servant who has care of the door in a large household; the young person, or young knight.

Dictionary of American Family Names (1956) by Elsdon Coles Smith

The word bachelor has long been a sore puzzle to etymologists. Whatever its origin, it seems to imply something inchoate-the partial achievement of a desired object; thus a bachelor of arts, laws, &c., is one who having attained a certain scholastic honour, aspires after the higher degree of master or doctor; so a knight-bachelor is one who in the exercise of chivalry has won his spurs, but hopes to be elected into some order; while the bachelor of common life is one, who having attained the age of manhood, has not yet taken a position necessary to the proper fulfilment of the social relation-that of marriage. The surname may have been applied originally to persons in this imperfect condition, either in the scholastic, the chivalric, or the social sense.

Patronymica Britannica (1860) by Mark Antony Lower

Bachelder Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Bachelder Come From? nationality or country of origin

The last name Bachelder is found in The United States more than any other country/territory. It may be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for other possible spellings of this name.

How Common Is The Last Name Bachelder? popularity and diffusion

The surname is the 190,963rd most commonly occurring last name internationally, held by approximately 1 in 3,300,519 people. The surname occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 96 percent of Bachelder are found; 96 percent are found in North America and 95 percent are found in Anglo-North America.

This surname is most frequently held in The United States, where it is carried by 2,012 people, or 1 in 180,149. In The United States it is most common in: Maine, where 15 percent live, California, where 9 percent live and Ohio, where 8 percent live. Apart from The United States this last name occurs in 10 countries. It also occurs in Canada, where 8 percent live and Guam, where 0 percent live.

Bachelder Family Population Trend historical fluctuation

The incidence of Bachelder has changed through the years. In The United States the number of people who held the Bachelder surname increased 232 percent between 1880 and 2014 and in England it fell 95 percent between 1881 and 2014.

Bachelder Last Name Statistics demography

In The United States those bearing the Bachelder last name are 5.96% more likely to be registered Republicans than the national average, with 52.73% registered to vote for the party.

The amount Bachelder earn in different countries varies somewhat. In United States they earn 5.37% more than the national average, earning $45,464 USD per year and in Canada they earn 4.31% less than the national average, earning $47,544 CAD per year.

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