Blaak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of blaken:
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/blaːk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Blaak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 17K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M
- ESSpain1 in 6.3M
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.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Sources
- 6 (measured from records)
- 1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
1,030 people, 2007
Reference-verified
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
inflection of blaken:
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Blaak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 1,030 | 1 in 17K | 1K | Blaak | 6 |
| ES Spain | 8 | 1 in 6.3M | 8 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | — |
| UG Uganda | — | — | 1 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | 2 |
1,030 people counted by CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007), 2007. 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: CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)
Blaak is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In yol, alternative form of bhlock
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)
- Jaap Blaakb. 1945NLDutch painter
- Metje Blaakb. 1949NLDutch writer
- Mirjam Blaakb. 1956NLUgandan politician and diplomat
- Ellen Blaakb. 1964NLProfessor at Maastricht University
- Ronald Blaakb. 1970NLresearcher
- Jeroen Blaakb. 1972Dutch historian
- Pirmin Blaakb. 1988NLDutch field hockey player
- Chantal van den Broek-Blaakb. 1989NLDutch cyclist
- Piet BlaakNLNederlands; fotograaf
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 1K | #1,660 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 8 | #134,434 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 5 | #100,289 |
| UG Uganda | Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names | — | 1 | #157 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Blaak mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of blaken: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Blaak?
- A machine transcription gives /blaːk/ (IPA) for Dutch.
- In which country does Blaak have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 1.0 thousand people named Blaak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled blaak.
- Where is Blaak most common?
- Blaak is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 17 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Blaak?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,030 people named Blaak in 2007, about 1 in 17 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/blaakThe 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, “Blaak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.