Anak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anak and his descendants symbolize formidable, 'giant' obstacles that stand in the way of God's promises, requiring faith and divine assistance to overcome
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ænək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Anak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 9.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 43K
- THThailand≈1 in 2.2Kas เอนก
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Anak itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 named เอนก, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Indonesia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled เอนก in TH Thailand, Anouk in NL Netherlands and Anek in US United States.
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)
Anak and his descendants symbolize formidable, 'giant' obstacles that stand in the way of God's promises, requiring faith and divine assistance to overcome.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Anak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | #343 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | #288,108 | เอนก | 114 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.8K | listed | Anak | 123 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 21,766as Anouk | 1 in 794 | 22K | Anouk | 5 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Anak | 64 |
| US United States | — | 472as Anouk | 1 in 705K | 461 | Anek | 40 |
| DK Denmark | — | 90as Anouk | 1 in 65K | 90 | — | — |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Anak is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Korean, location in Hwanghae province where Dong Shou was buried.
as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
In Indonesian, offspring; young person or animal; person who originates from or was born in (a given country, area, etc.); person belonging to a certain occupation (family, etc.), as _anak kapal_ 'crewmember of a ship'; small part of some larger thing, as _anak baju_ 'undershirt', _anak bukit_ 'small hill (at foot of mountain)', _anak air_ 'small tributary stream'
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Malay, child (a female or male child, a daughter or son)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Indonesian, a young creature
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Neck, Necklace, or Long-necked
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anak Verhoevenb. 1996BEBelgian rock climber
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(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 6 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Anak mean, and where does it come from?
- Anak and his descendants symbolize formidable, 'giant' obstacles that stand in the way of God's promises, requiring faith and divine assistance to overcome. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Anak?
- A machine transcription gives /ænək/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Anak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named เอนก in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Anak?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 21,766 people named Anouk, about 1 in 794 residents.
- How common is Anak compared with other names?
- In Thailand, Anak is the 343rd most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/anakThe 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, “Anak” — the 343rd most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.