Hak
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant spelling of Haack
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/hək/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Hak is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bangladesh than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common surname.
- BDBangladesh≈1 in 225as Haque(inferred from the name graph)
- PKPakistan≈1 in 2.7Kas Haq
- KWKuwait≈1 in 4.6Kas Haque
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 Hak 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.
- Bangladesh (inferred from the name graph)
- #967 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 290 (measured from records)
- 1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈720,000 named Haque, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Haque in IN India, US United States, BD Bangladesh and 3 more and Haq in PK Pakistan.
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)
variant spelling of Haack.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hak 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BD Bangladesh | #13 | ≈720,000 est. | ≈1 in 225 | listed | Haque | 192 |
| PK Pakistan | #81 | ≈85,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 16 | Haq | 137 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Hak | 59 |
| US United States | — | 13,437as Hook | 1 in 25K | 13K | Haque | 290 |
| IN India | #197 | 5,878as Haq | 1 in 226K | 5.9K | Haque | 160 |
| QA Qatar | #168 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | — | Haque | 24 |
| KW Kuwait | #128 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Haque | 19 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 519 | 1 in 21K | 522 | — | 2 |
| BH Bahrain | #153 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Haque | 21 |
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; Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) — Form-33 List of Contesting Candidates, 2018 General Election; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)
Hak 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 Dutch, unexplained.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In cdo, Blind of one eye ； wholly blind ； met., ignorant, un- Hs—ia: ' educated : com., "hak^'chu, a blind persen ；. coll., hak^ (Chii, or kaJc) 'ki&ig; a blind man ; (hcong hak、 the eyes open but sightless ； hak) kae ' or
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, to close, to join, to agree with, a pair, a measure, to settle, to pay a balance, the whole, cheap
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, siang ne ( ph ) BE fF a broken voice, a clattering, as of cracked metal
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In cdo, a shout, an angry exclamation, to reprimand, to drink
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
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)
- Petrus Josephus Hakb. 1890NLDutch architect (1890–1957)
- Pavel Hakb. 1962FRCzech writer
- Štěpán Hakb. 1986CZCzech playwright
- Mads HakDanish composer
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 41 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 112K | #12 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 697 | #34,899 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 589 | #37,735 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 506 | #40,690 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 458 | #9,813 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 143 | #11,874 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 143 | #6,551 |
| 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 Hak mean, and where does it come from?
- variant spelling of Haack. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Hak?
- A machine transcription gives /hək/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Hak have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 724 thousand people named Haque in Bangladesh, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Hak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hak is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 21 thousand people — even though Bangladesh holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Hak?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 519 people named Hak, about 1 in 21 thousand residents.
- How common is Hak compared with other names?
- In Bangladesh, Hak is the 13th most common surname of 12,312 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/hakThe 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, “Hak” — the 13th most common surname in Bangladesh. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.