# Bakke (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bakke/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | not recorded |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 3,517 |
| US rank (2010) | 9,257 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 87,787 people |
| Change since 2000 | -1.8% (3,583 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a Dutch surname, from bak (“bucket, bin”); also from bakkes (“face”). * As a Norwegian surname, from bakke (“bank, hillside”).

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bakke in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 95% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 0.4% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 1.9% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.6% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.8% |
| Two or more races | 1.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Bakke in the United States.

## People named Bakke

- Brenda Bakke, American actress

## Similar surnames

Back, Baek, Bak, Baik, Baze, Beck, Bush, Bass, Buck, Baez, Beach, Boggs.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.