Bakis

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

Meaning: A name given to the inspired prophets and dispensers of oracles who flourished in Greece from the 8th to the 6th century B.C

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024

Pronunciation:

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

CHSwitzerland1 in 227K(measured from records)
TRTürkiye≈1 in 360Kfew records
AUAustralia≈1 in 510Kfew records

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.

: Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 118 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 50K (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:

Bakiş

Locally spelled Bakiş in TR Türkiye.

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

A name given to the inspired prophets and dispensers of oracles who flourished in Greece from the 8th to the 6th century B.C.

Cited for this meaning 1

kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world

Bakis 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 Bakis is recorded, by country
Country				Most common spelling	Sources
TR Türkiye	≈240 est.	≈1 in 358K	—	Bakiş	28
US United States	167	1 in 2M	174	Bakis	118
DE Germany	≈110 est.	≈1 in 757K	—	Bakis	35
GB United Kingdom	≈57 est.	≈1 in 1.2M	—	Bakis	14
AU Australia	≈54 est.	≈1 in 508K	—	Bakis	37
CH Switzerland	37	1 in 227K	37	Bakis	5
CY Cyprus	≈27 est.	≈1 in 50K	—	Bakis	5
AT Austria	≈21 est.	≈1 in 440K	—	Bakis	5

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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

Bakis is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

French surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Belgium, Congo - Kinshasa, United States
Also written Bakiş, Bãkïs
Spanish surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Honduras, Türkiye
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese
Also written Baķis, Bakiş
Greek surname6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Greece
Also written Μπακής, Μπακης, Μπάκης, Bakiş, Mpakis
a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Bakiş, Bakiš
Croatian surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia
Also written Bakiš
Russian surname6 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Russia, United States, Türkiye
Also written Бакис, Bakiş, Baķis
Urdu surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Türkiye, India
Languages: Urdu, Hindi
Also written Bakiş

24 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.

Other recorded senses

Bakis is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

In io, past of bakar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, past of baki
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In kg, put against
as a wordBantu Lexical Reconstructions 3 (BLR3), Tervuren 2002/2003
In Swedish, hungover
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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

Hillel Bakisb. 1949FRFrench writer
Kirsten Bakisb. 1967USnovelist

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

FormalDear Mr Bakis,

InformalHi Bakis,

Evidence

13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Bakis
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000	2000	174	#96,918
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020	2020	172	#109,465
US United States	Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010	2010	167	#106,570
CH Switzerland	BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)	2024	37	#23,367
US United States	wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)	—	—	—

Reference works 1

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 Bakis mean, and where does it come from?: A name given to the inspired prophets and dispensers of oracles who flourished in Greece from the 8th to the 6th century B.C. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Bakis have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 239 people named Bakis in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bakiş.
How common is the name Bakis?: In the United States, the national register counted 167 people named Bakis in 2010, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bakis

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, “Bakis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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