Paek
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpik/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paek is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In North Korea it is the 87th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Korean 백 (baek).
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 57K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 18Kas Pack
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 6K
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 Paek 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)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.0K (inferred from the name graph)
18,678 named Pack, 2010
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
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)
Borrowed from Korean 백 (baek).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paek 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 | — | 18,678as Pack | 1 in 18K | 19K | Paek | 221 |
| KP North Korea | #87 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Paek | 22 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 175K | — | Paek | 2 |
| CN China | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Paek | 8 |
| KR South Korea | #153 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 57K | 391K | Paek | 108 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 183K | — | Paek | 42 |
| IN India | — | 44 | 1 in 30M | 44 | Paek | 4 |
18,678 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling pack. 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: KOSIS — 2015 census surnames; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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)
Paek is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Khmer, party, part, side, section; region, sector, flank (of an army). (TA. P H 9 ‘wing;’ Cham.: pik.) ?nH[ntUn flank or wing of an army. funLpm
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In cdo, a bladder, harmony of sound, rhyme, refined, a city in ancient Lu, now in Shanto fling, to throw down
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Paek Nam-unb. 1894KPNorth Korean economist and politician (1894-1979)
- Paik Too-chinb. 1908KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean politician (1908-1993)
- Paik Sun-yupb. 1920KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean military officer (1920–2020)
- Paek Nam-sunb. 1929KPNorth Korean diplomat (1929-2007)
- Kun-Woo Paikb. 1946KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean pianist
- Baek Ji-youngb. 1976KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer
- Baek Jin-heeb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Baek Se-heeb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean essayist
- Paik Seung-hob. 1997KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
- Baek Ha-nab. 2000KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean badminton player
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 14 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | KOSIS — 2015 census surnames | 2015 | 391K | #27 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,183 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.6K | #17,644 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 1.4K | #18,607 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 44 | #48,495 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Paek mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Korean 백 (baek). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Paek?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpik/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Paek have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Pack, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Paek?
- In India, the national register counted 44 people named Paek, about 1 in 30 million residents.
- How common is Paek compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Paek is the 87th most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paekThe 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, “Paek” — the 87th most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.