Waak
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/wɔæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Waak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 182K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 196K
- FIFinland1 in 206K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 13 (measured from records)
- 1 in 182K (inferred from the name graph)
274 people, 2010
Reference-verified
Norway
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
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)
Waak 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 | 274 | 1 in 1.2M | 287 | Waak | 7 |
| SE Sweden | 52 | 1 in 196K | 52 | Waak | 13 |
| NO Norway | 30 | 1 in 182K | 30 | Waak | 3 |
| FI Finland | 27 | 1 in 206K | 27 | — | 1 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | — | 1 | — | — |
274 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)
Waak is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Dutch, inflection of waken:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Filipino, torn, ripped
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In cho, cow, cattle
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mh, read
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Madeleine Waakb. 2003USAmerican volleyball 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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 287 | #72,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 276 | #66,878 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 274 | #71,265 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 52 | #12,311 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 30 | #35,703 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 27 | #39,744 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 1 | #35 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Waak?
- A machine transcription gives /wɔæk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Waak have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 274 people named Waak, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled waak.
- Where is Waak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Waak is densest in Norway — about 1 in 182 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Waak?
- In the United States, the national register counted 274 people named Waak in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.
What do you want to know about Waak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/waakThe 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, “Waak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.