Backès

Name: Backès: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-10
License: https://mondonomo.ai/tos#rights

surname · Latin script

Backès is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.

rarermore common

DEGermany≈1 in 12K(inferred from the name graph)
USUnited States1 in 137K
LULuxembourg≈1 in 4.2K

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.

: Germany (inferred from the name graph)
Sources: 243 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 4.2K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Backes

Locally spelled Backes in US United States, DE Germany, LU Luxembourg and 2 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Backès 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.

Where Backès is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
DE Germany	—	≈6,600 est.	≈1 in 12K	listed	Backes	137
BR Brazil	—	6,112	1 in 35K	6.1K	—	3
US United States	—	2,421	1 in 137K	2.4K	Backes	243
FR France	—	≈360 est.	≈1 in 186K	44	—	2
BE Belgium	—	329	1 in 36K	329	Backes	20
LU Luxembourg	#241	≈150 est.	≈1 in 4.2K	596	Backes	13
NL Netherlands	—	129	1 in 134K	129	Backes	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; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Luxembourg top-100 surnames (surnam.es); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Backès is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

a separate name3 spellings in the group
Also written Bäckes, Backes
Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Paraguay
Languages: Portuguese, Spanish
Also written Backes, Bäckes
Korean surname2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States
Also written Backes

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Backès under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Backès have the most bearers?: Mondonomo estimates about 6.6 thousand people named Backès in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled backes.
How common is the name Backès?: In Brazil, the national register counted 6,112 people named Backès, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
How common is Backès compared with other names?: In Luxembourg, Backès is the 241st most common surname of 1,851 surnames recorded there.

What do you want to know about Backès?

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Query this name via API

curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/back%C3%A8s

The 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 2026-10-10 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, “Backès” — the 241st most common surname in Luxembourg. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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Spellings & scripts●(measured from records)