Dictionary of Family Names in the Visegrad Countries
BAKÓ
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| Origin | of Hungarian origin |
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| Type | Family name referring to an occupation, activity or social status |
| Family name referring to the connection with the father or another ancestor by that name |
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The name is derived from the Hungarian common noun bakó meaning ‘butcher’ (or ‘executioner’) and refers to an occupation. It may also be derived from the medieval Hungarian name Bakó (hypocoristic form of a given name beginning with Ba-, e.g. Balázs ‘Blaise’, Barnabás ‘Barnabas’) and refer to the connection with the father or another ancestor by that name. |