Bakke
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a hill or slope
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bakke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Norway than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 95K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 411
- DKDenmark1 in 27K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Norway (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 222 (measured from records)
- 1 in 411 (inferred from the name graph)
13,306 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
a hill or slope
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bakke 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | #388 | 13,306 | 1 in 411 | 13K | Bakke | 53 |
| US United States | — | 3,517 | 1 in 95K | 3.6K | Bakke | 222 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 126K | — | Bakke | 3 |
| GH Ghana | — | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Bakke | 9 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Bakke | 36 |
| DK Denmark | — | 217 | 1 in 27K | 217 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 188 | 1 in 54K | 188 | — | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 77K | — | Bakke | 9 |
13,306 people counted by SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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)
Bakke 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 Dutch, singular present subjunctive of bakken
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In rob, body of a person killed in battle
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In enm, bat (flying mammal)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bug, corpse, as of a dog
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In stq, to stick, cling to
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)
- Egil Bakkeb. 1927NONorwegian civil servant (1927–2022)
- Hallvard Bakkeb. 1943NONorwegian politician (1943–2024)
- Svein Bakkeb. 1953NONorwegian association football player (1953-2015)
- Bo Bakkeb. 1955NONorwegian curler
- Brenda Bakkeb. 1963USAmerican actress
- Morten Bakkeb. 1968NOfootballer
- Geir Bakkeb. 1969NONorwegian association football manager
- Håvard Bakkeb. 1974NONorwegian actor and singer
- Trine Bakkeb. 1975NONorwegian alpine skier
- Eirik Bakkeb. 1977NONorwegian footballer
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
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 Bakke mean, and where does it come from?
- a hill or slope Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bakke have the most bearers?
- In Norway, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Bakke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bakke.
- Where is Bakke most common?
- Bakke is densest in Norway, where the national register counts about 1 in 411 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bakke?
- In Norway, the national register counted 13,306 people named Bakke, about 1 in 411 residents.
- How common is Bakke compared with other names?
- In Norway, Bakke is the 388th most common surname of 90,139 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bakkeThe 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, “Bakke” — the 388th most common surname in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.