Baëk
surname · Latin script
/bæik/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Baëk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Korea than in any other country. In South Korea it is the 90th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Korean 백 (baek).
- KRSouth Korea≈1 in 9.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 111K
- KPNorth Korea≈1 in 2.2K
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.
- North Korea (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 225 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
North Korea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Baek in KR South Korea, US United States, CA Canada and 3 more.
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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Korean 백 (baek).
Sources 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baëk 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KP North Korea | #256 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | 14 | Baek | 17 |
| KR South Korea | #90 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Baek | 175 |
| CN China | — | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 277K | — | Baek | 21 |
| US United States | — | 2,990 | 1 in 111K | 3.6K | Baek | 225 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Baek | 47 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 52K | — | Baek | 13 |
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; Wikidata humans by citizenship — given & family names. 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Baëk mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Korean 백 (baek). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Baëk?
- A machine transcription gives /bæik/ (IPA) for Korean.
- In which country does Baëk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Baëk in North Korea, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baek.
- How common is the name Baëk?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,990 people named Baëk in 2010, about 1 in 111 thousand residents.
- How common is Baëk compared with other names?
- In North Korea, Baëk is the 256th most common surname of 2,439 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Baëk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ba%C3%ABkThe 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, “Baëk” — the 256th most common surname in North Korea. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.