Bakaş

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bakaş is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Greek Μπάκας (Bákas).

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 279K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 304K
  • SESweden1 in 567K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

306 people, 2010

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 279K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bakas in IN India.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Borrowed from Greek Μπάκας (Bákas).

Sources 2

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
  • Wiktionary

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bakaş counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Bakaş is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3061 in 1.1M323—4
IN India741 in 18M74Bakas4
NL Netherlands621 in 279K62—1
SE Sweden181 in 567K18——
NO Norway181 in 304K18——
CH Switzerland61 in 1.4M6——

306 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bakaş is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Swahili surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States

    Also written Bakas

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, India, Egypt, Saudi Arabia

    Also written Bakas, Bàkàs

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Bakaş under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bakaş mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Greek Μπάκας (Bákas). Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Wiktionary.
In which country does Bakaş have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 306 people named Bakaş, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Bakaş most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bakaş is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 279 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bakaş?
In the United States, the national register counted 306 people named Bakaş in 2010, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bakaş”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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