Anak

patronymic · Malay · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Anak is a name, most frequently recorded in Thailand. It appears chiefly in Malay and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Anak and his descendants symbolize formidable, 'giant' obstacles that stand in the way of God's promises, requiring faith and divine assistance to overcome.

rarermore common
  • THThailand1 in 64◐
  • MYMalaysia1 in 158
  • IDIndonesia1 in 10

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈34K ●

across 11 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
112 ●

54K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 797 ◐

Netherlands

Spellings & scripts●

AnakLatin · Malay●30K records
เอนกThai · Thai●42K records
안악Hangul · Korean●1 records
আনুকBengali · Bangla●0 records

9 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Anek in US United States, IN India, CA Canada and 2 more, เอนก in TH Thailand, Anouk in NL Netherlands and Anok in PH Philippines.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Anak and his descendants symbolize formidable, 'giant' obstacles that stand in the way of God's promises, requiring faith and divine assistance to overcome.

Sources 1

  • Biblical Names Compiled Database

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Anak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TH Thailand#34958,83434K rec.—#288,108เอนก112
MY Malaysia—52,21216K rec.——Anak51
NL Netherlands—21,693△48 rec.1 in 79722KAnouk6
FR France—10,790△2 rec.1 in 6.3K11K—1
US United States—461509 rec.1 in 722K461Anek39
ES Spain—282△7 rec.1 in 177K282—3
ID Indonesia—1322K rec.—listedAnak111
SE Sweden—119△5 rec.1 in 86K119—2
IN India—102172 rec.—7Anek14
DK Denmark—90—1 in 65K90——
BR Brazil—72△14 rec.1 in 2.9M74—14
PH Philippines—38253 rec.——Anok10

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Malay30K43%
  • English16K22%
  • Indonesian12K16%
  • Swahili5.5K8%
  • Chinese1.5K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Malay30,42643%
English16,00022%
Indonesian11,50916%
Swahili5,5168%
Chinese1,4952%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Anak is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English name84K records spelled Anak6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Malaysia, United States

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written ִAnak, Anãk

39 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Anak 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 Korean, location in Hwanghae province where Dong Shou was buried.

    as a nameKorea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary

  • In Indonesian, offspring; young person or animal; person who originates from or was born in (a given country, area, etc.); person belonging to a certain occupation (family, etc.), as _anak kapal_ 'crewmember of a ship'; small part of some larger thing, as _anak baju_ 'undershirt', _anak bukit_ 'small hill (at foot of mountain)', _anak air_ 'small tributary stream'

    as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

  • In Malay, child (a female or male child, a daughter or son)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Indonesian, a young creature

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Neck, Necklace, or Long-necked

    as a nameBiblical Names Compiled Database

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●

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 11 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Anak
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—15#14,023
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196715—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)195714—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196213—
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls—12#57,859
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)196512—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197211—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197910—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197710—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)197510—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19698—
IN Indianaampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls)19618—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 110 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Anak?
We estimate roughly 34 thousand people bear Anak (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Anak have the most bearers?
Anak is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled เอนก.
How common is Anak compared with other names?
In Thailand, Anak is the 349th most common given name of 422,526 given names recorded there.
What does the name Anak mean?
Recorded meaning: Anak and his descendants symbolize formidable, 'giant' obstacles that stand in the way of God's promises, requiring faith and divine assistance to overcome.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Anak” — the 349th most common given name in Thailand. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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