Kraska
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Polish kraska ‘European roller’ (a species of bird of the crow family, noted for its fine feathers, also for its loud and persistent cry), hence (in Polish) a nickname for a garrulous person (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 15 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈkɹaskə/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Kraska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 4,941 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Kraska is also written Краска in Cyrillic.
- PLPoland1 in 7.7K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 109K
- FIFinland1 in 232K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kraska itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.7K (inferred from the name graph)
4,941 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kraska in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Краска in UA Ukraine.
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.
How to pronounce Kraska
- English:/ˈkɹaskə/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Polish:/ˈkras.ka/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Polish kraska ‘European roller’ (a species of bird of the crow family, noted for its fine feathers, also for its loud and persistent cry), hence (in Polish) a nickname for a garrulous person. As a Jewish name it is mainly ornamental.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Kraska is found
(measured from records)Kraska 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 4,941 | 1 in 7.7K | 2.5K | Kraska | 76 |
| US United States | 767 | 1 in 434K | 794 | Kraska | 48 |
| IN India | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Kraska | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 240K | — | Краска | 12 |
| FR France | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 444K | 14 | Kraska | 2 |
| IE Ireland | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 86K | — | Kraska | 9 |
| NO Norway | 50 | 1 in 109K | 50 | Kraska | 5 |
| FI Finland | 24 | 1 in 232K | 24 | — | — |
4,941 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Kraska 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.
ornamental name from Belorussian and Ukrainian kraska, denoting a kind of flower.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
metonymic occupational name for a dyer, from Belorussian kraska ‘dye’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In German, from Polish kraska 'jay, roller'
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
In Russian, "beauty."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Latvian, Sarkandaugava - rajons Rīgā
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jerzy Kraskab. 1951PLPolish footballer
- Adam Kraskab. 1985PLPolish Roman Catholic priest, poet, doctor of dogmatic theology, regionalist
- Jakub Kraskab. 2000PLPolish swimmer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 15 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kraska mean, and where does it come from?
- from Polish kraska ‘European roller’ (a species of bird of the crow family, noted for its fine feathers, also for its loud and persistent cry), hence (in Polish) a nickname for a garrulous person. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kraska?
- It depends on the language: in English /ˈkɹaskə/ (Wiktionary); in Polish /ˈkras.ka/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kraska?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 4.9 thousand people named Kraska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kraska. After it come United States, India, Ukraine and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Kraska most common?
- Kraska is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kraska?
- In Poland, the national register counted 4,941 people named Kraska in 2026, about 1 in 7.7 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kraskaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Kraska” — ranked 1017th in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.