Bak Family History
Bak Name Meaning
Czech Slovak and Hungarian: from the old personal name Bak which can be a short form of the personal names beginning with Ba- or a Hungarian name probably from bak ‘billy goat he-goat’. It is also a nickname derived from this word denoting a womanizer a ladies’ man. Polish: nickname from Old Polish bakać ‘to scold or yell (at someone)’. Polish and Jewish (from Poland) (Bąk): nickname from Polish bąk ‘horse-fly’ ‘bittern’ or ‘eagle-owl’; in the first of these senses probably a nickname for an irritating person. Compare Bonk . Croatian and Slovenian: nickname from Croatian and dialectal Slovenian bak ‘bull’. Dutch: variant of Back 6. Korean: variant of Pak 7: Chinese: variant Romanization of the surname 麥 see Mai 8: Chinese: alternative Cantonese form of the surnames 白 and 柏 see Bai 1 and
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022