Wakin
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wakin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Thailand than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 351K(measured from records)
- THThailand≈1 in 761Kas วิกาล
- PKPakistan≈1 in 4.2Mas วาการ์
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 Wakin 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.
- Thailand (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 21 (measured from records)
- 1 in 351K (inferred from the name graph)
≈91 named วิกาล, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled วิกาล in TH Thailand and วาการ์ in PK Pakistan.
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)
Wakin 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 761K | #590,877 | วิกาล | 21 |
| PK Pakistan | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | — | วาการ์ | 3 |
| US United States | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 149M | 148 | Wakin | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 9.9M | 22 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 10 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 148 | #117,480 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 144 | #125,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 133 | #120,330 |
| 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
- In which country does Wakin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 91 people named วิกาล in Thailand, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Wakin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wakin is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 351 thousand people — even though Thailand holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Wakin?
- In Iceland, the national register counted 1 people named Wakin in 2026, about 1 in 351 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wakin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wakinThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Wakin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.