Paik

At the 2020 census, 2,732 Americans bore the surname Paik — 11,088th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 109,000.

By the numbers

People: 2,732
Rank: 11,088th
How common: 1 in 109,000
Per 100,000: 0.91

Where the name comes from

Origin Korean

Variant of Baek.

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

Who bears the name

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

Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 89.2%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.8%
White, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 1.2%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.04%

Notable people called Paik

Nam June Paik (1932–2006)American video art pioneer
Kun-Woo Paik (born 1946)South Korean pianist

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

Surnames like Paik

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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.