Barak
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: The commander of the army of Deborah in the Old Testament
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/baɾak/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Barak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 396K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 9.2K
- CZCzechia1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Türkiye (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 223 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A name of Hebrew origin meaning 'lightning', symbolizing sudden power, energy, and brightness.
Sources 1
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Barak is read(measured from records)
Barak is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Turkish36%
Tüylü, kıllı çuha, kebe.
as a wordTDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
- English23%
The commander of the army of Deborah in the Old Testament.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Biblical name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
- Hebrew16%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Barak in Hebrew.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Barak 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Barak | 19 |
| IL Israel | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Barak | 61 |
| US United States | 840 | 1 in 396K | 1.1K | Barak | 223 |
| CZ Czechia | 801 | 1 in 13K | 801 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 128K | listed | Barak | 66 |
| SK Slovakia | 125 | 1 in 44K | 125 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 120 | 1 in 35K | 120 | — | — |
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; the de-munich-vornamen register; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Barak 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.
A name of Hebrew origin meaning 'lightning', symbolizing sudden power, energy, and brightness.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Barak represents the military arm of divine deliverance, acting in concert with prophetic guidance (Deborah) to liberate God's people from oppression.
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
Lightning
as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database
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)
- William Barakb. 1824AUAboriginal Australian leader in the Melbourne area in early colonial Victoria (c.1824–1903)
- Aharon Barakb. 1936LTIsraeli judge and jurist (born 1936)
- Elisheva Barak-Ussoskinb. 1936ILIsraeli judge
- Ehud Barakb. 1942IL10th Prime Minister of Israel
- Yaakov Barakb. 1964ILIsraeli military officer
- Dror Barakb. 1974ILIsraeli pornographic actor and model (1974–2012)
- On Barakb. 1974ILIsraeli historian
- Melissa Barakb. 1979USballet dancer
- Liron Barakb. 1983ILIsraeli physicist
- Yusuf Barakb. 1984AFAfghan footballer
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 57 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 924 | #13,046 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 12 | #13,046 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 8 | #6,767 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| DE Germany | Stadt München Open Data — Vornamen von Nulljährigen | 2021 | — | — |
| DE Germany | DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen (2007) | — | — | — |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
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
- Where does the name Barak come from?
- A name of Hebrew origin meaning 'lightning', symbolizing sudden power, energy, and brightness. Recorded by Biblical Names Compiled Database.
- How do you pronounce Barak?
- A machine transcription gives /baɾak/ (IPA) for Turkish.
- What does the name Barak mean?
- In English, The commander of the army of Deborah in the Old Testament.
- In which country does Barak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Barak in Türkiye, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled barak.
- How common is the name Barak?
- In the United States, the national register counted 840 people named Barak in 2010, about 1 in 396 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Barak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/barakThe 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, “Barak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.