Bakkal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: grocery
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/bakːˈaɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bakkal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 265K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 345K
- NLNetherlands1 in 665K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 7 (measured from records)
- 1 in 265K (inferred from the name graph)
73 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)grocery
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bakkal 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.
73 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Bakkal is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A shopkeeper or dealer.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In lad, grocer
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
(measured from records)- Marie-Claude Bakkal-Lagardeb. 1962FRFrench archaeologist
- Mesut Bakkalb. 1964TRTurkish association football player and manager (born 1964)
- Otman Bakkalb. 1985NLDutch footballer
- Yakup Emre Bakkalb. 2004TRTurkish association football player (born 2004)
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 73 | #34,495 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 73 | #34,218 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 26 | #44,140 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 21 | #41,787 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 17 | #27,186 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 6 | #91,353 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #213,830 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #250,019 |
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
- What does the name Bakkal mean, and where does it come from?
- grocery Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bakkal?
- A machine transcription gives /bakːˈaɫ/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- In which country does Bakkal have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 73 people named Bakkal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bakkal.
- Where is Bakkal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bakkal is densest in Finland — about 1 in 265 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bakkal?
- In Spain, the national register counted 73 people named Bakkal, about 1 in 685 thousand 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/bakkalThe 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, “Bakkal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.