The Baka surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 568 people carried this name — #38,850 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 526,300 people counted. That is up 7% from 531 in 2000.
Where the name comes from
The origin of the Baka surname
Borrowed from Czech, Slovak, Hungarian and Polish Baka.
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary (en.wiktionary.org) — entry «Baka» (English), by Wiktionary contributors · licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) · excerpt, lightly adapted.
In Poland’s population register
1,034 people named Baka have a registered home in Poland.
Of the 1,189 in Poland’s national register, these are the ones with a permanent address on file. They live in all 16 of Poland’s voivodeships, most of all in Masovian.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
PESEL register, Ministry of Digital Affairs of Poland (dane.gov.pl) — CC0 · living people by voivodeship of permanent residence, 20 January 2026.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 53 people named Baka.
Most of them — 29 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 11 départements, most often 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 the Nordic population registers
27 people named Baka is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Baka,
with a public archive behind them.
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Józef Baka 1707–1780 · writer -
János Baka 1840–1928 · teacher
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Péter Baka 1625–1673 · pastor
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László Baka 1754–1820 · parson
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Czesław Baka 1919–1942
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Branislav Baka 1927– · cynologist
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Baka.
When the index is not enough
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