Puk

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●

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

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◐

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

• English surname6.6K records spelled Puk6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Netherlands, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Pük

• Thai surname340 records spelled Puk3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Thailand

  Also written Pük

40 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●

Puk 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 Russian, var of Pauk.

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In rak, banana

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In iba, call of any bird of prey with plaintive note, as opp. to screechers

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In iba, call of any bird of prey with plaintive note

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• Former ISO 639-3 language code for Pu Ko.

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Notable people with this name●

• Mirko Pukb. 1884HRpolitician
• John Pukb. 1991USAmerican basketball player (born 1991)
• Anna Pukb. 1994PLPolish 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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 60 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Puk?

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

In which country does Puk have the most bearers?

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

Where is Puk most common?

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

How common is Puk compared with other names?

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

What does the name Puk mean?

Recorded meaning: knock knock (used in lieu of knocking (e.g.