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The earliest known reference to the city dates from 1408, during the rule of Moldavian Prince Alexandru cel Bun.

The etymology is unclear, but one possibility is being derived from the name of a medieval Hungarian innkeeper, Bakó, who, supposedly, had an inn on the current road from Bacău to Roman, whose lodging was, according to legend, the first in the town of Bacău.

Another theory suggests that the name may have a Slavic origin, pointing to the Proto-Slavic word byk, meaning "ox" or "bull", the region being very suitable for raising cattle; the term, rendered into Romanian alphabet as bâc, was probably the origin of Bâcau (БѪКЪУ in Romanian Cyrillic, a name by which the town is mentioned in several medieval documents).

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