The Bacus surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 642 people carried this name — #35,096 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 454,500 people counted. That is up 2% from 628 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Bacus surname
Respelling of Backus, but also borrowed from Cebuano Bacus.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Bacus» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 78 people named Bacus.
2 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 13 départements, most often Meurthe-et-Moselle.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 21 people named Bacus live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Liège.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Bacus,
with a public archive behind them.
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Anne Bacus-Lindroth 1955– · psychologist
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John Bacus 1969– · architect
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Dakota Bacus 1991– · baseball player
Wikidata (CC0).
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bacus.
- Backes 2,421 · U.S. census
- Bacle 108 · U.S. census
- Baco 149 · U.S. census
- Bacon 29,860 · U.S. census
- Bacot 519 · U.S. census
- Bacque 136 · U.S. census
- Baczkowski 321 · U.S. census
- Baczynski 262 · U.S. census
- Bada 496 · U.S. census
- Badal 898 · U.S. census
- Badar 361 · U.S. census
- Bade 2,487 · U.S. census
When the index is not enough
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