Dack
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dack is a surname, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Cook Islands it is the 4th most common surname. It appears chiefly in English and Welsh, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: perhaps from OE *Dæcca, as in Dagenham; first attested Dacke 1250 AssSt.
- GBUnited Kingdom1 in 83K◐
- USUnited States1 in 448K
- CKCook Islands1 in 681
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈818 ●
- Sources
- 186 ●
- 1 in 448K ◐
across 6 countries
11K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Meaning & origin●
perhaps from OE *Dæcca, as in Dagenham; first attested Dacke 1250 AssSt
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested across 2 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,793 | 2.3K rec. | — | listed | Dack | 108 |
| US United States | — | 743 | 6.7K rec. | 1 in 448K | 781 | Dack | 186 |
| AU Australia | — | 657 | 625 rec. | — | — | Dack | 53 |
| CA Canada | — | 338 | 331 rec. | — | — | Dack | 42 |
| DE Germany | — | 116 | 115 rec. | — | — | Dack | 30 |
| SG Singapore | — | 65 | 66 rec. | — | — | Dack | 2 |
| BR Brazil | — | 59 | — | 1 in 3.6M | 59 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | — | 53 | 59 rec. | — | — | Dack | 4 |
| IT Italy | — | 50 | 55 rec. | — | — | Dack | 4 |
| CK Cook Islands | #4 | 46 | 146 rec. | — | — | Dack | 1 |
| CN China | — | 36 | 43 rec. | — | — | Dack | 3 |
| CM Cameroon | — | 33 | 34 rec. | — | — | Dack | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English9.6K71%
- Welsh1.8K13%
- German4033%
- Spanish3683%
- French2552%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 9,638 | 71% |
| Welsh | 1,792 | 13% |
| German | 403 | 3% |
| Spanish | 368 | 3% |
| French | 255 | 2% |
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●
Dack is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, byname Dcecca (of uncertain origin), which may have sur¬ vived into the Middle English period as a given name. The surname is found mainly in Norfolk. D’Aiello see Aiello Dalle see Dale Patr.: Dax. Dailey see Daly
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
In English, To pull down someone's trousers as a practical joke.
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.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1968 | 12 |
| 1969 | 8 |
| 1970 | 7 |
| 1971 | 5 |
| 1974 | 13 |
| 1992 | 5 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 6 years between 1968–1992. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Walter MacMorris Dackb. 1852CACanadian politician and journalist
- Harry Dackb. 1877British trade unionist and politician
- Bradley Dackb. 1993GBEnglish association football player
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 17 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 781 | #31,714 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 743 | #31,211 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 687 | #31,774 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 120 | #50,309 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 59 | #93,298 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 13 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 12 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #193,293 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1992 | 5 | — |
Reference works 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 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 · 20 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Dack?
- We estimate roughly 818 people bear Dack (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
- In which country does Dack have the most bearers?
- Dack is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled dack.
- How common is Dack compared with other names?
- In Cook Islands, Dack is the 4th most common surname of 291 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Dack mean?
- Recorded meaning: perhaps from OE *Dæcca, as in Dagenham; first attested Dacke 1250 AssSt
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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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Dack” — the 4th most common surname in Cook Islands. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.