Bäck

surname · Latin script

Meaning, in Swedish: a small stream or brook

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries

/bɛk/(recorded in a dictionary) Swedish · from Wiktionary

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Bäck is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • LULuxembourg≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FIFinland1 in 2.5K
  • SESweden1 in 2.8K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bäck itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

8,762 people, 2010

Record sources
349 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Luxembourg, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Back in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 2 more.

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 small stream or brook

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

How Bäck is read

(measured from records)

Bäck is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Swedish46%

    a small stream or brook

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

  • German42%

    Zu ahd. becko, mhd. becke ‚Bäcker‘; 386 Belege. Belegt die e/ä-Schreibung in der Vokalvarianz.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Bäck 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 Bäck is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—8,7621 in 38K8.8KBack349
BR Brazil—8,7601 in 24K8.8K—4
DE Germany—≈4,200 est.≈1 in 20KlistedBack115
SE Sweden#2413,6821 in 2.8K3.7KBäck52
GB United Kingdom—≈2,400 est.≈1 in 28KlistedBack161
FI Finland#9152,2611 in 2.5K2.3KBack33
AT Austria#992≈770 est.≈1 in 12K—Bäck27
LU Luxembourg—≈340 est.≈1 in 2K680—15
DK Denmark—3091 in 19K309Back53

8,762 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); the dfa-band-1 register; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population 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)

Bäck is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Back

  • Portuguese surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Mexico

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Back, Bằcķ, Bāçk, Bâck, Båčk

  • Indonesian surname12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, United States, Sweden

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Back, Båçk, Bāćķ, Bâck, Bàćķ

  • French surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, United Kingdom

    Also written Back, Bäçk, Bãčk, Bàçk, Bāçk

  • Polish surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Back, Bàçķ, Băčķ, Bäčk, Bãčk

  • Croatian surname45 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, India, Bulgaria

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Bek, Beck, Bak, Бек, Back

21 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)
1850190019502000Józef Beck, b. 1894Aaron Temkin Beck, b. 1921Julian Beck, b. 1925Curt Beck, b. 1926Jeff Beck, b. 1944Ulrich Beck, b. 1944Byron Beck, b. 1945Glenn Beck, b. 1964Christophe Beck, b. 1968Scott Beck, b. 1984
  • Józef Beckb. 1894PLnot in their usual namePolish diplomat and military officer (1894-1944)
  • Aaron Temkin Beckb. 1921USnot in their usual nameAmerican psychiatrist, researcher, therapist
  • Julian Beckb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor, director and writer (1925–1985)
  • Curt Beckb. 1926DEnot in their usual nameGerman film actor and stage actor (1926-1993)
  • Jeff Beckb. 1944GBnot in their usual nameEnglish guitarist (1944–2023)
  • Ulrich Beckb. 1944DEnot in their usual nameGerman sociologist & scholar (1944–2015)
  • Byron Beckb. 1945USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player (born 1945)
  • Glenn Beckb. 1964USnot in their usual nameAmerican conservative political commentator
  • Christophe Beckb. 1968CAnot in their usual nameCanadian composer and conductor
  • Scott Beckb. 1984USnot in their usual namefilm director

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)
FormalHej ,Dear Bäck, (English)
InformalHej ,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Bäck
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3.7K#272
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.9K#1,052
FI FinlandDVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register)—759—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—16#27,607
DE GermanyDeutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 1———

Reference works 3

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Bäck mean, and where does it come from?
a small stream or brook Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Bäck?
In Swedish /bɛk/ (Wiktionary).
In which country does Bäck have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 8.8 thousand people named Bäck, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled back.
How common is the name Bäck?
In the United States, the national register counted 8,762 people named Bäck in 2010, about 1 in 38 thousand residents.
How common is Bäck compared with other names?
In Sweden, Bäck is the 241st most common surname of 187,334 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, “Bäck” — the 241st most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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