Nacke
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: from ON Hnaki; first attested Alured Nacche 1189 Sol
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈnæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nacke is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DEGermany≈1 in 1.2M(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 547K
- ARArgentina1 in 679K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 87 (measured from records)
- 1 in 547K (inferred from the name graph)
371 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
from ON Hnaki; first attested Alured Nacche 1189 Sol
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Nacke is read(measured from records)
Nacke is one spelling over 3 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.
- English52%
from ON Hnaki; first attested Alured Nacche 1189 Sol
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- German36%
Übername zu mhd./mnd. nacke 'Nacken' (persönliches Merkmal: Nacken); Bearer count 812.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 5: Familiennamen nach Beruf und persönlichen Merkmalen
- Spanish6.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Nacke in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Nacke 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.
371 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: the dfa-band-5 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Nacke is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
nickname from Middle High German nac, nacke. Middle Dutch necke ‘neck’, perhaps denoting someone with a stiff neck, in either the literal or figurative sense.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
from the Old Norse personal name Hnaki.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Swedish, nape (back of the neck)
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)
- Paul Näckeb. 1851RUGerman psychiatrist (1851–1913)
- Max Nackeb. 1883DEGerman singer (1883-1958)
- Heinz Nackeb. 1909DEGerman fighter ace and Knight's Cross recipient (1909-1984)
- Hermann Nackeb. 1920DEGerman athletics competitor (1920-2008)
- Jens Nackeb. 1971DEGerman politician
- Stefan Nackeb. 1976DEGerman politician
- Michael Nackeb. 1993RURussian video blogger and radio host
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 391 | #56,436 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 381 | #51,352 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 371 | #55,386 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 67 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 32 | #142,633 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 15 | #30,567 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 10 | #56,426 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 7 | #53,243 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Nacke mean, and where does it come from?
- from ON Hnaki; first attested Alured Nacche 1189 Sol Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Nacke?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈnæk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Nacke have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 371 people named Nacke, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nacke.
- Where is Nacke most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nacke is densest in Norway — about 1 in 547 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Nacke?
- In the United States, the national register counted 371 people named Nacke in 2010, about 1 in 897 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Nacke?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nackeThe 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, “Nacke”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.