Bak

Bak is the 10,534th most common surname in the United States, shared by 2,904 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 103,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,904
Rank: 10,534th
How common: 1 in 103,000
Per 100,000: 0.97

Where the name comes from

Origin Korean

From Korean 박.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Bak described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 72.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 20.8%
Black, not Hispanic 2.6%
Hispanic or Latino 2.1%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 1.9%

1 category is not listed because nobody with this surname reported that background.

Notable people called Bak

Jacek Bąk (born 1973)Polish and French footballer
Lars Bak (born 1980)Danish road bicycle racer, born 1980
Arkadiusz Bąk (born 1974)Polish footballer
Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk (born 1984)Polish left-wing activist and politician
Per Bak (1948–2002)Danish physicist

People named Bak with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Bak

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.