Bakó
surname · Latin script
Meaning: executioner, hangman (person who carries out the execution)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/ˈbɒkoː/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Bakó is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- HUHungary≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 3.1K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 3.2Kfew records
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈73,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hungary, 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 Bako in US United States, RO Romania, NG Nigeria.
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)executioner, hangman (person who carries out the execution)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bakó 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈73,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | listed | Bako | 22 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 174 | — | — |
| HU Hungary | #210 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Bakó | 69 |
| AL Albania | — | ≈770 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 21 | — | — |
| RO Romania | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Bako | 25 |
| US United States | — | 454 | 1 in 733K | 501 | Bako | 74 |
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 2020; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- László Bakób. 1872RO(1872–1928) Hungarian actor
- Elemér Bakób. 1915HUAmerican librarian
- Sándor Bakób. 1915HUHungarian Esperantist
- Ágnes Bakób. 1919HUHungarian historian, politician (1919–2009)
- Márta Bakób. 1920HUHungarian actress (1920-2013)
- Pál Bakób. 1946HUHungarian former modern pentathlete
- Zoltán Bakób. 1951HUCanoe racer
- Gina B.b. 1978HUnot in their usual nameHungarian pornographic actress
- Christian Bakob. 1989HUHungarian actor
- Elitsa BakoBGBulgarian actress
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
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 Bakó mean, and where does it come from?
- executioner, hangman (person who carries out the execution) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bakó?
- In Hungarian /ˈbɒkoː/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Bakó have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 73 thousand people named Bakó in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bako.
- How common is the name Bakó?
- In the United States, the national register counted 454 people named Bakó in 2010, about 1 in 733 thousand residents.
- How common is Bakó compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Bakó is the 210th most common surname of 88,284 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bakó?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bak%C3%B3The 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, “Bakó” — the 210th most common surname in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.