Bakai
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bakai is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 13Kas Бакай(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 93Kas Бакай
- MNMongolia≈1 in 222K
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 Bakai 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 116 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 222K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,300 named Бакай, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Mongolia, 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 Бакай in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan and Bakay 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- Családnevek enciklopédiája
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bakai 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈3,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Бакай | 36 |
| RU Russia | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 93K | #3,735 | Бакай | 116 |
| PL Poland | 421as Bakaj | 1 in 91K | 214 | Bakai | 5 |
| US United States | 182as Bakay | 1 in 1.8M | 194 | Bakay | 13 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 57K | — | Бакай | 17 |
| ES Spain | 25 | 1 in 2M | 25 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 23as Bakaj | 1 in 184K | 23 | — | — |
| MN Mongolia | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 222K | listed | — | — |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Bakai is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "wide, tall."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Piroska Bakaib. 1941HUHungarian animator
- József Bakaib. 1942HUHungarian athlete
- Zoltán Bakaib. 1946HUHungarian politician (1946-1997)
- László Bakaib. 1956HUHungarian actor
- Eszter Bakaib. 1970HUHungarian basketball player (born 1970)
- Zita Bakai-NagyHUHungarian politician
- Benedek BakaiSK(?–1633)
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 18 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 157 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 157 | #20,499 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 142 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 142 | #21,976 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 25 | #73,010 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 25 | #71,513 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 21 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 16 | #25,770 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Bakai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Бакай in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bakai?
- In Spain, the national register counted 25 people named Bakai, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
What do you want to know about Bakai?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bakaiThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bakai”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.