Pauk

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, Pak in NL Netherlands, DE Germany, MY Malaysia and 2 more and 박 in KR South Korea.

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●

Languages●

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◐

Pauk is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Croatian surname1.7K records spelled Pauk7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Ukraine

  Also written Паук

• Burmese surname223 records spelled Pauk15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma)

  Also written Pâuk, Pàűk, Pàûk, Päuk, Páúk

32 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●

Pauk 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 German, from Slavic pauk ‘spider’

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In German, Wendish pawuk, 'spider'

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In cdo, BJ^ Used for the coll. pauk、 *r to fry quick and crisp or ) hard in oil, as a fowl, duck, * piece of pork, etc.

  as a word·An Alphabetic Dictionary of the Chinese Language in the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, to expand the mouth, to mouth, to ; take in the mouth

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

• In cdo, an unpolished stone, a gem in the 7 | rough

  as a word·Dictionary of the Foochow Dialect

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●

• Adolf Paukb. 1902EEEstonian communist politician (1902-1941)
• František Paukb. 1905CZCzechoslovak geologist
• Walter Paukb. 1914USAmerican academic (1914-2019)
• György Paukb. 1936HUHungarian classical violinist (1936–2024)
• Alex Paukb. 1945CACanadian composer
• Goran Paukb. 1962HRCroatian politician and footballer
• Thierry Paukb. 1966FRFrench association football player
• Marcin Rafał Paukb. 1974PLPolish historian
• Volodymyr PaukCZresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 23 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Pauk?

We estimate roughly 4.3 million people bear Pauk (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Pauk have the most bearers?

We estimate about 4.2 million people bear Pauk in South Korea, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled 박.

Where is Pauk most common?

Pauk is densest in South Korea, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 people carrying it.

How common is Pauk compared with other names?

In South Korea, Pauk is the 3rd most common surname of 14,083 surnames recorded there.

What does the name Pauk mean?

Recorded meaning: spider