Bakka
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bekə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bakka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country.
- NONorway1 in 5.7K(measured from records)
- GDGrenada1 in 113K
- DKDenmark1 in 267K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 81 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,769 people
Highest-authority source
Norway
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)
Bakka 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.
1,769 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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: Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025. 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)
Bakka is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Icelandic, to back up (move backwards, especially on a vehicle)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mdr, split open, as an injured foot
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Oromo, place, site, location
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In wym, to bake
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)
- Gabriel Bakkab. 1889NONorwegian teacher (1889-1971)
- Maria Bakkab. 1922PLPolish actress
- Egil Bakkab. 1926NONorwegian archaeologist (1926-1985)
- Egil Bakkab. 1943NONorwegian professor
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 20 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1981 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1972 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1971 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1970 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1965 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1956 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1955 | 4 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1979 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1974 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1970 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1968 | 3 | — |
| IN India | naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) | 1965 | 3 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- How do you pronounce Bakka?
- A machine transcription gives /bekə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Bakka have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Bakka, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bakka.
- Where is Bakka most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bakka is densest in Norway — about 1 in 5.7 thousand people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bakka?
- In India, the national register counted 1,769 people named Bakka, about 1 in 750 thousand residents.
- How common is Bakka compared with other names?
- In Mali, Bakka is the 999th most common surname of 7,873 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bakka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bakkaThe 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, “Bakka” — the 999th most common surname in Mali. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.