Paik
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈpeɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paik is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Baek.
- INIndia1 in 29K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 12Kas Pike
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 44K
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 Paik 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.
- India (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
44,998 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
India
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Pek in MY Malaysia.
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)
Variant of Baek.
Sources 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paik 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | #871 | 44,998 | 1 in 29K | 45K | Paik | 83 |
| US United States | — | 26,655as Pike | 1 in 12K | 27K | Paik | 92 |
| BD Bangladesh | #707 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Paik | 20 |
| KR South Korea | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 82K | 391K | — | — |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 70K | — | Pek | 6 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 367as Pek | 1 in 29K | 368 | Paik | 7 |
| HR Croatia | — | 300as Pek | 1 in 14K | 300 | — | — |
| GL Greenland | — | 59as Pike | 1 in 977 | 59 | — | — |
44,998 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Statistics Greenland — Surnames (NAXT1). 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)
Paik is also recorded in 6 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In lud, patch (for garment)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In vo, pike (fish)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sco, A beating.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Estonian, place
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cdo, to give a blow with a club
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, saga @
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. 1894KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean economist and politician (1894-1979)
- Paik Too-chinb. 1908KRSouth Korean politician (1908-1993)
- Paik Sun-yupb. 1920KRSouth Korean military officer (1920–2020)
- Paek Nam-sunb. 1929KPnot in their usual nameNorth Korean diplomat (1929-2007)
- Nam June Paikb. 1932USAmerican video art pioneer (1932–2006)
- Kun-Woo Paikb. 1946KRSouth 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
- 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 20 sources across 11 countries.
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 Paik mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Baek. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Paik?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈpeɪk/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Paik have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 45 thousand people named Paik, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled paik.
- Where is Paik most common?
- Paik is densest in India, where the national register counts about 1 in 29 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Paik?
- In India, the national register counted 44,998 people named Paik, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Paik compared with other names?
- In India, Paik is the 871st most common surname of 1,492,515 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/paikThe 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, “Paik” — the 871st most common surname in India. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.