Pauk

Locally spelled Park in US United States, HK Hong Kong, PK Pakistan and 1 more, 박 in KR South Korea, Пак in RU Russia and Puk in PL Poland.

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.

Pauk is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Ukraine

  Also written Паук

• Burmese surname15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma)

  Also written Pàűk, Pàûk, Pãűk, Pâuk, Paŭk

32 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Pauk is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In German, from Slavic pauk ‘spider’

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In German, Wendish pawuk, 'spider'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In cdo, BJ^ Used for the coll. pauk、 *r to fry quick and crisp or ) hard in oil, as a fowl, duck, * piece of pork, etc.

  as a word·An Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, to expand the mouth, to mouth, to ; take in the mouth

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, an unpolished stone, a gem in the 7 | rough

  as a word·Dictionary 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.

• Adolf Paukb. 1902EEEstonian communist politician (1902-1941)
• František Paukb. 1905CZCzechoslovak geologist
• Walter Paukb. 1914USAmerican academic (1914-2019)
• György Paukb. 1936HUHungarian classical violinist (1936–2024)
• Alex Paukb. 1945CACanadian composer
• Goran Paukb. 1962HRCroatian politician and footballer
• Thierry Paukb. 1966FRFrench association football player
• Marcin Rafał Paukb. 1974PLPolish historian
• Volodymyr PaukCZresearcher

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).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Pauk mean, and where does it come from?

spider Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).

In which country does Pauk have the most bearers?

In South Korea, the national register counted about 4.2 million people named 박, more than in any other country we hold.

Where is Pauk most common?

No national register we hold counts the spelling Pauk itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is South Korea's: the national register counts about 1 in 12 people named 박.

How common is the name Pauk?

In South Korea, the national register counted 4,192,080 people named 박 in 2015, about 1 in 12 residents.

How common is Pauk compared with other names?

In South Korea, Pauk is the 3rd most common surname of 14,133 surnames recorded there.