Pak
surname · Korean · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pak is a surname, with more bearers in South Korea than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname. It appears chiefly in Korean and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Silla clan/surname associated with Hyokkose; origin explained by the egg myth.
- KRSouth Korea1 in 12◐
- KPNorth Korea1 in 110
- MOMacao1 in 112
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈4.3M ●
- #53 ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 468 ●
- 1 in 12 ◐
across 11 countries
of 21M surnames
recorded for this name
4.1M records
Official registry-verified
South Korea
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Park in US United States, IN India, AU Australia and 9 more, Пак in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more, 박 in KR South Korea and Паук in UA Ukraine.
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●
Silla clan/surname associated with Hyokkose; origin explained by the egg myth.
Sources 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Attested across 17 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | #3 | 4,192,080 | 2.6M rec. | 1 in 12 | 4.3M | 박 | 298 |
| AU Australia | #666 | 508,355 | 68K rec. | — | 67 | Park | 196 |
| CA Canada | — | 202,514 | 32K rec. | — | 5 | Park | 171 |
| RU Russia | #706 | 156,494 | 59K rec. | — | #5,240 | Пак | 150 |
| US United States | — | 106,696 | 1.1M rec. | 1 in 3.1K | 111K | Park | 468 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 35,799 | 70K rec. | — | 7 | Park | 178 |
| UA Ukraine | #996 | 33,827 | 34K rec. | — | — | Паук | 33 |
| HK Hong Kong | #463 | 25,068 | 1.2K rec. | — | — | Park | 68 |
| PL Poland | — | 17,954△ | 451 rec. | 1 in 2.1K | 18K | Puk | 62 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #231 | 7,759 | 1.8K rec. | — | — | Пак | 15 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #263 | 6,341 | 265 rec. | — | — | Пак | 26 |
| DK Denmark | — | 4,201△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 4.2K | — | 2 |
Roughly 4.2M people in South Korea bear this name (about 1 in 12). 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●
- Korean5.4M54%
- English4.4M45%
- Turkish25K1%
- Spanish6.4K1%
- 4.6K1%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Korean | 5,357,334 | 54% |
| English | 4,422,814 | 45% |
| Turkish | 25,462 | 1% |
| Spanish | 6,385 | 1% |
| 4,638 | 1% |
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●
Pak 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 Khmer, n, fortnight, half a month, 15-day period. (Pa, pakkba.) Unnn (or: partisans, members the same group. time of the waning moon. Wnun waxing moon. unRCUisi
as a wordHeadley, Cambodian-English Dictionary, Volume I (ក-ភ)
In cdo, Read cA'a'/ used in the Paik、 ^Ing for the coll. pak 、： the crackling or snapping of fire : pak^ ^kH to snap up ； pak^ pak^ kieu" a crackling sound.
as a wordAn Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect
In Cebuano, word used in writing to represent the sound of a slap, or explosion of firecrackers
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
In Albanian, to paralyze, pass out, appall, mortify (not being able to see, speak or move)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In bfg, the fallen sheath from palm fronds or bamboo; husk of sugarcane
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
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●
Show as table
| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1911 | 3 |
| 1921 | 1 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1961 | 12 |
| 1971 | 11 |
| 1981 | 35 |
| 1991 | 42 |
FR INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) — 7 years between 1911–1991. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Park Chung-heeb. 1917KRnot in their usual name3rd President of the Republic of Korea
- Park Geun-hyeb. 1952KRnot in their usual namePresident of South Korea from 2013 to 2017
- Nick Parkb. 1958GBnot in their usual nameBritish animator and filmmaker (born 1958)
- Psyb. 1977KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer (born 1977)
- Linda Parkb. 1978KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actress
- Park Ji-Sungb. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean association football player
- Park Hae-soob. 1981KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor
- Park Bo-gumb. 1990KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean actor, singer, and musician
- Park Chanyeolb. 1992KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean rapper, singer, actor, model, mc, composer, producer, songwriter.
- Park Ji-minb. 1995KRnot in their usual nameSouth Korean singer and dancer (BTS)
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 50 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KR South Korea | KOSIS — 2015 census surnames | 2015 | 4.3M | #3 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 11K | #3,308 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 11K | #3,320 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 9.9K | #3,322 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 664 | #15,284 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 405 | #4,939 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 306 | #10,406 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 305 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 305 | #10,703 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 270 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 270 | #12,355 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 117 | #56,228 |
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 · 202 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Pak?
- We estimate roughly 4.3 million people bear Pak (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Pak have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 4.2 million people bear Pak in South Korea, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled 박.
- Where is Pak most common?
- Pak is densest in South Korea, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 people carrying it.
- How common is Pak compared with other names?
- In South Korea, Pak is the 3rd most common surname of 14,083 surnames recorded there.
- What does the name Pak mean?
- Recorded meaning: Silla clan/surname associated with Hyokkose; origin explained by the egg myth.
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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.
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, “Pak” — the 3rd most common surname in South Korea. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.