Haak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: hook
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Haak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 7.2K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 17K
- USUnited States1 in 138K
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
- 274 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
hook
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | — | ≈4,600 est. | ≈1 in 17K | listed | Haak | 120 |
| NL Netherlands | #449 | 2,411 | 1 in 7.2K | 2.4K | Haak | 79 |
| US United States | — | 2,405 | 1 in 138K | 2.4K | Haak | 274 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Haak | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 110K | 1 | Haak | 60 |
| SE Sweden | — | 315 | 1 in 32K | 315 | Haak | 18 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 86 | Haak | 6 |
| FI Finland | — | 71 | 1 in 78K | 71 | — | 3 |
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; the dfa-band-5 register; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Haak 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.
unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Estonian, hook (usually as part of a closure, etc.)
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)
- Theodore Haakb. 1605DEGerman scholar (1605-1690)
- Jur Haakb. 1891NLDutch football player (1891-1945)
- Bob Haakb. 1926NLDutch art historian (1926–2005)
- Lex Haakb. 1930NLDutch architect (1930-2018)
- Guus Haakb. 1937NLDutch footballer
- Nico Haakb. 1939NLDutch singer (1939–1990)
- Hugo Haakb. 1991NLDutch cyclist
- Isabelle Haakb. 1999SESwedish female volleyball player
- Justin Haakb. 2002USAmerican soccer player
- Laurel HaakUSAmerican neuroscientist
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 2.4K | #479 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.4K | #12,821 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.4K | #12,532 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.2K | #12,686 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 315 | #2,848 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 86 | #975 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 80 | #1,011 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 71 | #16,737 |
| DE Germany | Deutscher Familiennamenatlas Band 5 | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- What does the name Haak mean, and where does it come from?
- hook Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Haak?
- In the etymology graph, Haken is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Haak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.6 thousand people named Haak in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haak.
- Where is Haak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Haak is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 7.2 thousand people — even though Germany holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Haak?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 2,411 people named Haak in 2007, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Haak compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Haak is the 449th most common surname of 284,143 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Haak?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haakThe 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, “Haak” — the 449th most common surname in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.