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The bak Surname

bak Name Meaning and History

  1. Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian: from the medieval personal name Bak. This personal name probably existed in Polish and Ukrainian too, but Rymut derives the surname from bakac ‘to scold or yell’.
  2. Slovenian: unexplained. The Slovenian name comes from the southern part of the Kras region of southwestern Slovenia.
  3. Dutch: variant of Bakke.
  4. Korean: variant of Pak.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bak Families in the US in 1920
Number of bak families
 15-27
 6-14		 1-5
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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