Boek
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Boek is a surname, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 311K◐
- NLNetherlands1 in 2.9M
- AIAnguilla1 in 76K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.1K ●
- Sources
- 189 ●
- 1 in 311K ◐
across 4 countries
34K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Bok in US United States, MY Malaysia, GB United Kingdom and 7 more, Buk in DE Germany, PL Poland, Bök in TR Türkiye and Buek in MA Morocco.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 1,070 | 25K rec. | 1 in 311K | 1.1K | Bok | 189 |
| DE Germany | 849 | 1.4K rec. | — | — | BuK | 60 |
| MY Malaysia | 811 | 1K rec. | — | — | Bok | 36 |
| GB United Kingdom | 641 | 874 rec. | — | listed | Bok | 27 |
| AU Australia | 627 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Bok | 50 |
| CA Canada | 331 | 462 rec. | — | — | Bok | 28 |
| PH Philippines | 129 | 468 rec. | — | — | Bok | 20 |
| SG Singapore | 114 | 279 rec. | — | — | Bok | 42 |
| IT Italy | 112 | 184 rec. | — | — | Bok | 6 |
| PK Pakistan | 56 | 67 rec. | — | — | Bok | 2 |
| BR Brazil | 32 | 0 rec. | 1 in 6.6M | 142 | — | 1 |
| AT Austria | 30 | 27 rec. | — | — | Bok | 14 |
Roughly 1.1K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 311K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English1.5K50%
- Western Frisian41814%
- German34511%
- Dutch1946%
- Portuguese1294%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,494 | 50% |
| Western Frisian | 418 | 14% |
| German | 345 | 11% |
| Dutch | 194 | 6% |
| Portuguese | 129 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Boek is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Javanese, dated spelling of buk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
Evidence●
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 418 | #4,785 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 157 | #111,988 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 156 | #117,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 136 | #118,236 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 112 | #58,162 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 14 | #49,724 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #140,265 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #311,290 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1 | #81,153 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames (Census 2010 + voter-file supplement) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 · 11 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Boek?
- We estimate roughly 1.1 thousand people bear Boek (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Boek have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 1.1 thousand people bear Boek in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bok.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boekThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
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, “Boek”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.