Baco

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Bacchus

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020

/bækoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

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

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
  • SKSlovakia1 in 8.9K
  • PRPuerto Rico≈1 in 18K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Baco itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,900 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
53 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 8.9K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovakia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
BacoLatin(measured from records)
ბაკოGeorgian(measured from records)

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)

Bacchus

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Baco 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 Baco is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines—≈5,900 est.≈1 in 18K—Baco26
FR France—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 59K52—1
SK Slovakia—6111 in 8.9K611——
BR Brazil—5431 in 390K543Baco40
US United States—454as Bako1 in 733K501Baco53
PR Puerto Rico#696≈180 est.≈1 in 18K—Baco15
AL Albania—≈90 est.≈1 in 34K21——
HR Croatia—84as Bako1 in 50K95——

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: JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts). 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)

Baco is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Bac-O, Bačo, Baćo, Bacó, Baço

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Philippines, United States, Belgium

    Also written Bacó, Bàco, Bačo

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Bačo, Baćo

  • Slovak surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Bačo, Báco, Baco̜

  • Turkish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Malaysia, Philippines, Syria

    Also written Baço

  • Croatian surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, Philippines

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian

    Also written Baćo, Bačo, Bacho, Баћо, Bachó

35 further groups 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Baco 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 Spanish, Del latín Bacchus, del griego Bákchos, sobrenombre de Dionisio; dios del vino.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • Dios del vino

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • In Romanian, vocative singular of bacă

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latin, flitch of bacon

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Dutch, a rum and coke

    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)
1700180019002000René Gaston Baco de La Chapelle, b. 1761François Baco, b. 1865Jean Baco, b. 1873Peter Baco, b. 1945Walter Baco, b. 1952Patrick Baco, b. 1953Abdou Baco, b. 1965Marianne Bournet-Bacot, b. 1982Chris Baco, b. 1994

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)
FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence

(measured from records)

26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Baco
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—543#15,798
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020174#108,494
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000162#102,691
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010149#116,829
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199152—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198140—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196138—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194138—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197134—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192132—

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Baco mean, and where does it come from?
Bacchus Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Baco?
A machine transcription gives /bækoʊ/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Baco have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.9 thousand people named Baco in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled baco.
Where is Baco most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Baco is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 8.9 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Baco?
In Slovakia, the national register counted 611 people named Baco in 1995, about 1 in 8.9 thousand residents.
How common is Baco compared with other names?
In Puerto Rico, Baco is the 696th most common surname of 8,205 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Baco” — the 696th most common surname in Puerto Rico. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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