Bakó

surname · Latin script

Meaning: executioner, hangman (person who carries out the execution)

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/bɒkoː/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • HUHungary≈1 in 8.9K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NGNigeria≈1 in 2.8K
  • ALAlbania≈1 in 3.8K

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)

≈77,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
74 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Nigeria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BakóLatin(measured from records)
БакоCyrillic(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)

Sources 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.

Where Bakó is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NG Nigeria—≈77,000 est.≈1 in 2.8KlistedBako22
CI Côte d’Ivoire—≈2,300 est.≈1 in 12K174——
HU Hungary#210≈1,100 est.≈1 in 8.9K—Bakó69
AL Albania—≈810 est.≈1 in 3.8K21——
RO Romania—≈580 est.≈1 in 37K—Bako25
US United States—4541 in 733K501Bako74

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bakó is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bako

  • Romanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania

    Also written Bako, Bakö

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Bako, Bakô

  • French surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Nigeria, United States, Cameroon

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Bako, Bakô, Bakö

  • Polish surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Nigeria

    Also written Bako

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, United Kingdom, Nigeria

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Bako, Bakò

  • a separate surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, India, Ethiopia

    Also written Bako

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Nigeria, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Bako

8 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000László Bakó, b. 1872Elemér Bakó, b. 1915Sándor Bakó, b. 1915Ágnes Bakó, b. 1919Márta Bakó, b. 1920Pál Bakó, b. 1946Zoltán Bakó, b. 1951Gina B., b. 1978Christian Bako, b. 1989

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)

FormalTisztelt Bakó!Dear Bakó, (English)
InformalTisztelt Bakó!Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources 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?
A machine transcription gives /bɒkoː/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
In which country does Bakó have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 77 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.

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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 2026-10-10.

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