Bąk
surname · Latin script
Meaning: any horsefly of the genus Tabanus (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈbɔŋk/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Bąk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Poland it is the 48th most common surname. Bąk is also written Бек in Cyrillic.
- PLPoland1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 1.4K
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 21K
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 Bąk 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 132 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
93,786 named Beck, 2010
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bąk in other scripts: Latin and Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bak in US United States, NO Norway and Beck in IN India, CH Switzerland.
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 Bąk
- Polish:/ˈbɔŋk/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)any horsefly of the genus Tabanus
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bąk is found
(measured from records)Bąk 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 | — | 93,786as Beck | 1 in 3.5K | 94K | Bak | 132 |
| PL Poland | #48 | 35,276 | 1 in 1.1K | 18K | Bąk | 120 |
| IN India | — | 14,073as Bek | 1 in 94K | 14K | Beck | 6 |
| BR Brazil | — | 7,808as Beck | 1 in 27K | 7.8K | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 4,201 | 1 in 1.4K | 4.2K | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | — | 3,791as Beck | 1 in 2.2K | 3.8K | Beck | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 1,590as Beck | 1 in 3.4K | 1.6K | Bak | 9 |
93,786 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling beck. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Bąk is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In zlw-opl, Eurasian bittern (Botaurus stellaris)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In csb, bumblebee or other buzzing insect
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)- Piotr Bąkb. 1958PLPolish actor
- Bożena Bąkb. 1966PLPolish badminton player
- Jacek Bąkb. 1973PLPolish and French 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)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bąk mean, and where does it come from?
- any horsefly of the genus Tabanus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bąk?
- In Polish /ˈbɔŋk/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bąk?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 94 thousand people named Beck, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Poland, India, Brazil and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bąk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bąk is densest in Poland — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bąk?
- In Poland, the national register counted 35,276 people named Bąk in 2026, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Bąk compared with other names?
- In Poland, Bąk is the 48th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bąk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C4%85kThe 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, “Bąk” — ranked 295th in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.