Wak
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɑk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wak is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 11K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 56K
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 347K
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 Wak 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.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wak 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.
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 — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)
Wak 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 sit-pro, half
as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)
ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Wakashan languages.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, a hole in ice (on the surface of a body of water)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In tbk, a bird similar to the crow
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Quechua, distinct, different
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Iloko, kind of crow
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 1
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 Wak?
- A machine transcription gives /wɑk/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Wak a male or female name?
- Wak is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Wak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.9 thousand people named Wak in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wak.
- How common is the name Wak?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 55 people named Wik, about 1 in 314 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wak?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wakThe 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, “Wak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.