Štuka

surname · Latin script

Meaning: pike (fish)

Štuka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 86K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 262K
  • CZCzechia1 in 382K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

146 people, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
13 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 86K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ŠtukaLatin(measured from records)
ЩукаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Щука in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

pike (fish)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Štuka counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Štuka is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland1461 in 262K80——
HR Croatia491 in 86K49Štuka13
CZ Czechia281 in 382K28——
RU Russia———Щука4
GB United Kingdom——16——

146 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Štuka is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Stuka

  • Latvian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Stuka

3 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Štuka is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Plg. liet. Štūkas, Stūkas (žr.), vok. Stück, Stucke, Stuke, Stugk (M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 560—561)

    as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, »lucius«

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • In Lithuanian, Plg. liet. Štūkas, Stūkas (žr.), vok. Stūck, Stucke, Stuke, Stugk (M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 560 — 561).

    as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

  • In Latvian, Tūkstotis (naudā)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Lieta; gabals

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Štuka
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202149#13,517
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202143—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—28#42,978

Reference works 2

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Štuka mean, and where does it come from?
pike (fish) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Štuka have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 146 people named Štuka, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Štuka most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Štuka is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 86 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Štuka?
In Poland, the national register counted 146 people named Štuka in 2026, about 1 in 262 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Štuka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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