How common is the surname Bakos?

1,306 people in the United States had the surname Bakos in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 236,405 Americans. It ranked 20,348th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Bakos?

In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Bakos identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Is the surname Bakos getting more or less common?

Less common. 1,370 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,306 in 2010, down 4.7%.

The surname Bakos

A Hungarian surname, carried by 1,306 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B220

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bakos is more common than 87.5% of them.

Origin

Hungarian origin

Borrowed from Hungarian Bakos, Slovak Bakoš or Polish Bakoś.

One of 46 Hungarian surnames on this site.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,306 people named Bakos in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 236,405 Americans. That is down 4.7% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,370.

#20,348

rank among US surnames

1,306

people in 2010

0.4

per 100,000 Americans

-4.7%

change since 2000 (was #18,569)

Who is named Bakos

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

92% of people named Bakos identified as white (not Hispanic), 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 2.2% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 92%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 4.3%
Two or more races 2.2%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.7%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.5%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bakos

Bakos has the Soundex code B220, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B220.

Other Hungarian surnames

All 46 Hungarian surnames

Questions

Where does the surname Bakos come from?: Borrowed from Hungarian Bakos, Slovak Bakoš or Polish Bakoś.
How common is the surname Bakos?: 1,306 people in the United States had the surname Bakos in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 236,405 Americans. It ranked 20,348th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bakos?: In the 2010 Census, 92% of people named Bakos identified as white (not Hispanic), and 4.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bakos getting more or less common?: Less common. 1,370 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,306 in 2010, down 4.7%.