 The village has a Serb ethnic majority and its population is 2,201 (2002 census).In Serbian, the village is known as "Gakovo" (Гаково), in German as "Gakowa" or "Graumarkt", in Hungarian as "Gádor" or "Gákova", in Croatian as "Gakovo", and in Bunjevac as "Gakovo".Name of the village is of Slavic (Serbo-Croatian) origin and roughly means "the place of Gako" or "the place of Gak".