Paaka
loc · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Paaka is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- SISlovenia1 in 24Kas Pak(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 31Kas Pak
- NLNetherlands1 in 43Kas Pak
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 Paaka itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 22 (measured from records)
- 1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
10,846 named Pak, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia, as Pak
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Poka in US United States, IN India.
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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Paaka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 10,846as Pak | 1 in 31K | 11K | Poka | 11 |
| PL Poland | 575as Pak | 1 in 67K | 305 | — | — |
| IN India | 463as Paak | 1 in 2.9M | 463 | Poka | 22 |
| NL Netherlands | 405as Pak | 1 in 43K | 405 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 117as Pak | 1 in 1.8M | 117 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 87as Pak | 1 in 24K | 87 | — | 1 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 2as Pak | 1 in 51K | 2 | — | — |
10,846 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling pak. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). 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)Paaka 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 Wolof, knife
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 123 | #19,809 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 63 | #38,515 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 8 | #24,983 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Paaka have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Pak, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Paaka most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Paaka itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Slovenia's: the national register counts about 1 in 24 thousand people named Pak.
- How common is the name Paaka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 10,846 people named Pak in 2010, about 1 in 31 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Paaka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paakaThe 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, “Paaka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.