The Bakir surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 289 people carried this name — #68,122 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 1,000,000 people counted. That is up 33% from 217 in 2000.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
279 people named Bakir live in Switzerland.
They live in 15 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 109 people named Bakir.
Most of them — 61 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 14 départements, most often Essonne.
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 103 people named Bakir 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 Antwerp.
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.
In Argentina’s national register
At least 59 people named Bakir live in Argentina.
RENAPER only publishes a name in a province when more than ten people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in City of Buenos Aires.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
RENAPER (National Registry of Persons, Argentina), surnames of residents by province, December 2021 — CC BY 4.0.
In the Nordic population registers
443 people named Bakir are counted in Sweden and Finland.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published. Finland counts its citizens, at home or abroad.
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) · Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland, surname statistics, August 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
Who carried it
People named Bakir,
with a public archive behind them.
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Mostafa Bakeer d. 2023 · journalist
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Əliağa Bakir 1923–1998 · poet
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Joanna Tokarska-Bakir 1958– · ethnologist
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Sitare Turan Bakir 1963–
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Joseph Bakir 1971– · artist
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Ron Bakir 1977– · entrepreneurship
Wikidata (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Bakir.
- Baize 1,713 · U.S. census
- Baj 260 · U.S. census
- Bak 2,920 · U.S. census
- Baka 568 · U.S. census
- Bakari 276 · U.S. census
- Baker 419,586 · U.S. census
- Bakker 3,392 · U.S. census
- Bakowski 348 · U.S. census
- Bal 2,006 · U.S. census
- Bala 1,968 · U.S. census
- Balagna 218 · U.S. census
- Balaguer 571 · U.S. census
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