Last Name BACK

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Meaning	Local: At the back, i.e. one who resided in a cottage lying behind some others. Also in the Eastern Counties Back seems to correspond with the German Bache. The son of Bagg. It is a Scandinavian personal name. This is confirmed by the diminutive Bagelyn. Name BACK is a Latin spelling of its Cyrillic origin 'БАК'. Below are some other possible Latin spellings of the Cyrillic version of this name. 'BAK' 'BAC' 'BACK' .

Origin	English, Jewish, Spanish, Dutch, Korean, Irish, Austrian, Belgian, South african, Hungarian, Ukrainian

Rank	3,811 (2000 US census)	3,655 (1990 US census)

Count	8,540 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that

90.05%, or 7690 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
0.71%, or 61 total occurrences, as black,
4.77%, or 407 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
0.89%, or 76 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
0.93%, or 79 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
2.66%, or 227 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.

Ukrainian middle names form the same way as Russian ones, except that for girls, the patronymic ending is '-ivna' rather than '-ovna' or '-evna.' Follow the Russian middle names link to get any additional information.

How many distinct last names exist in the United States of America?

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