Bäk
loc · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bäk is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Denmark it is the 84th most common surname.
- DKDenmark1 in 1.4K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K
- USUnited States1 in 111Kas Baek
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bäk 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 281 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
35,276 people, 2026
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bak in US United States, PL Poland, DK Denmark 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
- Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bäk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 35,276 | 1 in 1.1K | 18K | Bak | 5 |
| DK Denmark | #84 | 4,201 | 1 in 1.4K | 4.2K | Bak | 137 |
| US United States | — | 2,990as Baek | 1 in 111K | 3.6K | Bak | 281 |
| IN India | — | 2,023 | 1 in 656K | 2K | — | 15 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 1,365 | 1 in 13K | 1.4K | Bak | 55 |
| NO Norway | — | 352 | 1 in 16K | 352 | Bak | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 93 | 1 in 60K | 93 | — | 3 |
35,276 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling bąk. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
Bäk is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In stq, mouth (of an animal); muzzle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, back
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, „taurus“
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
In Serbo-Croatian, „gle“
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Bäk have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Bäk, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bak.
- Where is Bäk most common?
- Bäk is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bäk?
- In Poland, the national register counted 35,276 people named Bäk in 2026, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Bäk compared with other names?
- In Denmark, Bäk is the 84th most common surname of 88,366 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bäk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%A4kThe 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, “Bäk” — the 84th most common surname in Denmark. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.