Làska

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Làska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: from the Slavic loanword laska ‘pastry’ (probably a metathesized form of Slovak loksa or Ukrainian loksa), hence a metonymic occupational name for a pastry cook.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 11K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 20K
  • SKSlovakia1 in 28K

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)

3,535 people, 2026

Sources
84 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Laska in US United States.

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)

from the Slavic loanword laska ‘pastry’ (probably a metathesized form of Slovak loksa or Ukrainian loksa), hence a metonymic occupational name for a pastry cook. In Hungarian laska also denotes a type of mushroom, and in some cases the surname may have arisen as a nickname from this sense.

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
  • Skok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Làska 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 Làska is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland3,5351 in 11K1.8K——
US United States1,4511 in 229K1.5KLaska27
CZ Czechia5391 in 20K539——
BR Brazil3581 in 591K358—1
SK Slovakia1951 in 28K195——
NO Norway621 in 88K62——
CH Switzerland511 in 165K51——

3,535 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; MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Làska under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Làska mean, and where does it come from?
from the Slavic loanword laska ‘pastry’ (probably a metathesized form of Slovak loksa or Ukrainian loksa), hence a metonymic occupational name for a pastry cook. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and 1 other source.
In which country does Làska have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 3.5 thousand people named Làska, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Làska most common?
Làska is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Làska?
In Poland, the national register counted 3,535 people named Làska in 2026, about 1 in 11 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, “Làska”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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