Hák

Name: Hák: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Meaning: hook

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries

/ˈɦaːk/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary

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Hák is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

NLNetherlands1 in 10K(measured from records)
CZCzechia1 in 21K
PLPoland1 in 61K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Netherlands (measured from records)
Record sources: 11 (measured from records)
: 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Hak in US United States, 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

hook

Cited for this meaning 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

Hák 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 Hák is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
NL Netherlands	1,689	1 in 10K	1.7K	—	2
PL Poland	632	1 in 61K	317	—	—
US United States	589	1 in 565K	697	Hak	10
CZ Czechia	519	1 in 21K	522	—	—
IN India	458	1 in 2.9M	458	Hak	4
CH Switzerland	42	1 in 200K	42	—	—
HR Croatia	34	1 in 124K	34	—	—

1,689 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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

Hák is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name5 spellings in the group
Also written Hāk, Hâk, Hak, Häk
Bangla surname167 spellings in the group
Most recorded in India, Pakistan, United States, Bangladesh
Languages: Bangla, Hindi, Urdu
Also written Haque, Hak, Haq, হক, Hoq
Spanish surname11 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, India
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Hak, Hàk, Häk, Hâk, Hạk
Croatian surname10 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Croatia, India, Bulgaria, United States
Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian
Also written Hak, Хак, Hãk
French surname14 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, India, United States, Netherlands
Also written Hak, Hak', Häk, Hãk, Hàk

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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.

Notable people with this name

Čeněk Hákb. 1862CZCzech musician and county official (1862-??)
Josef Hákb. 1871CZmayor of Malšice, Czechia (1871-??)
Bohuslav Hákb. 1873CZofficial of Czechoslovak Ministry of Finance (1873-1946)
Rudolf Hákb. 1887CZsavings bank director in Louny, Czechia (1887-??)
František Hákb. 1903CZCzech cross-country skier
Oskar Hákb. 1930CZCzech actor
Zdeněk Hákb. 1958CZCzech biathlete
Tomáš Hákb. 1961CZCzech ecologist
Zdeněk Hákb. 1980CZCzech mountain guide
Petr Hákb. 2003CZCzech biathlete

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them

FormalVážený pane / paní Hák,Dear Hák, (English)

InformalVážený pane / paní Hák,Hello, (English)

Evidence

5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Hák
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
CZ Czechia	KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)	—	522	#2,732
CZ Czechia	MVČR — living population register 2017	—	519	#2,912

Reference works 2

Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Hák mean, and where does it come from?: hook Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Hák?: It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈɦaːk/ (Wiktionary); in Hungarian /ɦak/; in Slovak /ɦaːk/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
In which country does Hák have the most bearers?: In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.7 thousand people named Hák, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Hák most common?: Hák is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 10 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Hák?: In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,689 people named Hák in 2007, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/h%C3%A1k

The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of 2026-10-13 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, “Hák”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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