Balik

loc · Latin script

Meaning: behind, rear, back-end

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Balik is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 17K(measured from records)
  • SKSlovakia1 in 39K
  • PLPoland1 in 39K

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.

Poland (measured from records)

970 people, 2026

Sources
44 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Balík in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.

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)

behind, rear, back-end

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Balik 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 Balik is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland9701 in 39K501Balik44
CZ Czechia6171 in 17K621Balík31
US United States4221 in 788K429—17
SK Slovakia1391 in 39K139Balík12
FR France≈110 est.≈1 in 618K8—1
NO Norway321 in 171K32—1
CH Switzerland211 in 400K21——

970 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)

Balik is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Arabic name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Egypt

    Languages: Arabic, English

    Also written Bäļïķ, Bálik, Balík

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Balík

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Bálik, Balík

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Balík

  • Bangla name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bangladesh

    Also written বালিক

35 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(measured from records)

Balik 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 Malay, back

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, hauptsächlich türk. Fremdname; auf der Seite als möglicher Bezug zu Balthasar genannt; 106 Tokens.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • In iba, turn, turn to look at; turned speech in which syllables are said in reverse order

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In ban, be wrong way round, be reversed, (come) from the opposite side

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Javanese, on the contrary; in reverse order; turn this way and that

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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)

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 28 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Balik
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026501—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—501#6,411
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026469—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—469#6,963
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020429#52,263
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010422#49,723
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000415#47,939
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—32#34,066
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)202421#35,283
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197114—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195112—

Reference works 6

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 Balik mean, and where does it come from?
behind, rear, back-end Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Balik have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 970 people named Balik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled balik.
Where is Balik most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Balik is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 17 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Balik?
In Poland, the national register counted 970 people named Balik in 2026, about 1 in 39 thousand residents.

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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, “Balik”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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