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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian (Bakó) : patronymic from Bak.
  • Hungarian : from bakó, an occupational name for an executioner.
  • Croatian : nickname from the archaic word bako ‘bull’. The name is frequent in Istria and Dalmatia.

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