The bak Surname
bak Name Meaning and History
- 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’.
- Slovenian: unexplained. The Slovenian name comes from the southern part of the Kras region of southwestern Slovenia.
- Dutch: variant of Bakke.
- Korean: variant of Pak.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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