Waké
surname · Latin script
Waké is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ethiopia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A merger of two verbs of similar form and meaning: * Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną.
- TGTogo≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 29Kfew records
- GHGhana≈1 in 59K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Ethiopia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 286 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Togo, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wake in US United States, GB United Kingdom and ዋኬ in ET Ethiopia.
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)- Proto-Germanic*wakaną(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*wakēn(measured from records)
- Proto-Germanic*wakāną(measured from records)
A merger of two verbs of similar form and meaning: * Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną. * Middle English wakien, Old English wacian, from Proto-West Germanic *wakēn, from Proto-Germanic *wakāną.
Cited for this meaning 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Waké 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ET Ethiopia | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | ዋኬ | 11 |
| US United States | 2,739 | 1 in 121K | 2.7K | Wake | 286 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 4.2K | Wake | 177 |
| IN India | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 1 | — | 17 |
| GH Ghana | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 59K | listed | — | 9 |
| TG Togo | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 16K | 1 | — | 3 |
| NO Norway | 62 | 1 in 88K | 62 | — | 9 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024); naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Waké mean, and where does it come from?
- A merger of two verbs of similar form and meaning: * Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Waké have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.1 thousand people named Waké in Ethiopia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ዋኬ.
- How common is the name Waké?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,739 people named Waké in 2010, about 1 in 121 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wak%C3%A9The 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 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, “Waké”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.