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Across the world, Bakken (Baka , Bakken , Баккен ) is a common unisex first name. The first name Bakken is habitual in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly the Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare male name, Cameroon, and Senegal. In absolute terms, it is commonest in India, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. More prevalently, Bakken is the last name as well as the forename.
Bakken is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Baka , the fictional character in "Mafia III"; Baka (Geist) and Baka , the evil spirit in Haitian voodoo.