Dack
surname · Latin script
Meaning: perhaps from OE *Dæcca, as in Dagenham; first attested Dacke 1250 AssSt
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/dæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dack is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United Kingdom than in any other country. In Cook Islands it is the 3rd most common surname.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 60K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 448K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 88K
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.
- United Kingdom (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 213 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 60K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United Kingdom, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)perhaps from OE *Dæcca, as in Dagenham; first attested Dacke 1250 AssSt
Cited for this meaning 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Dack 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 60K | listed | Dack | 139 |
| US United States | — | 743 | 1 in 448K | 781 | Dack | 213 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Dack | 1 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Dack | 57 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 205K | — | Dack | 60 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈48 est. | ≈1 in 128K | — | Dack | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 88K | listed | — | 1 |
| CK Cook Islands | #3 | — | — | — | Dack | 1 |
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; the hanks-dictionary-surnames-1988 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)Dack 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.
In English, byname Dcecca (of uncertain origin), which may have sur¬ vived into the Middle English period as a given name. The surname is found mainly in Norfolk. D’Aiello see Aiello Dalle see Dale Patr.: Dax. Dailey see Daly
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, To pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke.
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)- Walter MacMorris Dackb. 1852CACanadian politician and journalist
- Harry Dackb. 1877British trade unionist and politician
- Bradley Dackb. 1993GBEnglish association 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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 781 | #31,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 743 | #31,211 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 687 | #31,774 |
| GB United Kingdom | A Dictionary of Surnames (Hanks & Hodges, 1988) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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
- What does the name Dack mean, and where does it come from?
- perhaps from OE *Dæcca, as in Dagenham; first attested Dacke 1250 AssSt Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Dack?
- A machine transcription gives /dæk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Dack have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Dack in the United Kingdom, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dack.
- How common is the name Dack?
- In the United States, the national register counted 743 people named Dack in 2010, about 1 in 448 thousand residents.
- How common is Dack compared with other names?
- In Cook Islands, Dack is the 3rd most common surname of 473 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dackThe 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, “Dack” — the 3rd most common surname in Cook Islands. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.