Tauk

surname · Latin script

Meaning: alternative form of tahu (“to know”) (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries

/tɐuk/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain

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Tauk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

  • FIFinland1 in 136K(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 5M
  • INIndia1 in 74M

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 Tauk 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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈240 named Taok, est.

Record sources
21 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 136K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Tauk in other scripts: Latin

(measured from records)
taOKTauk in Latin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Taok in PH Philippines, 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.

How to pronounce Tauk

  • Portuguese:/tɐuk/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Indonesian:/tauk/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

alternative form of tahu (“to know”)

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where the surname Tauk is found

(measured from records)

Tauk 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.

Where Tauk is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines≈240 est.≈1 in 490K—taOK14
BR Brazil421 in 5M42Tauk21
FI Finland411 in 136K41—1
IN India181 in 74M18—2
MY Malaysia≈8 est.≈1 in 4.6M—taOK5

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: IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written taOK

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Lebanon, Philippines, Belgium

    Also written taOK, Taôk

30 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Tauk 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.

  • In cdo, to pour boiling water on, to steep to scald

    as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect

  • In iba, to know

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In cdo, a cake, a biscuit, (bing-tauk)

    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)
  • Peeter Taukb. 1878EEEstonian engineer and diplomat (1878-1959)

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)
FormalDear Tauk,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Tauk mean, and where does it come from?
alternative form of tahu (“to know”) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Tauk?
It depends on the language: in Portuguese /tɐuk/; in Indonesian /tauk/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Tauk?
Mondonomo estimates about 237 people named Taok in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Brazil, Finland, India and Malaysia; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Tauk most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Tauk is densest in Finland — about 1 in 136 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Tauk?
In Brazil, the national register counted 42 people named Tauk, about 1 in 5.0 million residents.

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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, “Tauk”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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