Arak
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Arakan [Rakhine]
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈæɹæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Arak is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in India.
- INIndia
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 27 (measured from records)
no count published
Highest-authority source
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Arakan [Rakhine]
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arak counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024). 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)
Arak is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, city, Iran
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, state, Burma
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In sas, arrack. On Lombok four kinds are known: (from rice), (from lontar palm), (from sugar palm), (from coconut palm)
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Polish, arak (clear, unsweetened, aniseed-flavored alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Levant)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A clear, unsweetened aniseed-flavoured alcoholic drink, produced and consumed primarily in the Levant.
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)
- Berta Arakb. 1870ATHolocaust victim (born 1870)
- Aleksander Arakb. 1883EEEstonian politician (1883-1969)
- Elmar Arakb. 1938EEEstonian pharmacist (1938-2018)
- Taivo Arakb. 1946EEEstonian mathematician (1946-2007)
- Margus Arakb. 1966EEEstonian physicist (born 1966)
- Piotr Arakb. 1987PLPolish economist
- Jakub Arakb. 1995PLassociation football player
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 19 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 223 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 223 | #14,786 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 217 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 217 | #14,934 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 90 | #30,398 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 34 | #136,957 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 33 | #31,996 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 14 | #10,676 |
Reference works 3
- 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
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 Arak mean, and where does it come from?
- Arakan [Rakhine] Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Arak?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈæɹæk/ (IPA) for Persian.
- In which country does Arak have the most bearers?
- Arak is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled arak.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/arakThe 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, “Arak”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.