Liška
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fox, Vulpes, genus within the family Canidae (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/ˈlɪʃka/(recorded in a dictionary) Czech · from Wiktionary
Liška is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country: 4,831 people, counted by MVČR. Liška is also written Лиска in Cyrillic.
- CZCzechia1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia1 in 5.9K
- ATAustria≈1 in 25K
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 Liška 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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,831 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Liška in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Liska in US United States and Líška in SK Slovakia.
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 Liška
- Czech:/ˈlɪʃka/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Slovak:/ˈliʃka/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)fox, Vulpes, genus within the family Canidae
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Liška is found
(measured from records)Liška 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #128 | 4,831 | 1 in 2.2K | 4.8K | Liška | 76 |
| US United States | — | 2,679 | 1 in 124K | 2.7K | Liska | 68 |
| SK Slovakia | #108 | 918 | 1 in 5.9K | 918 | Líška | 52 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 2 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 232K | listed | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 64 | 1 in 66K | 64 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 1 | — | — |
4,831 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)Liška is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
—žr. Liškus
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Lithuanian, LIŠKA-LIŠAUSKAS Žsl (žm. vad. Lišauskas) — žr. Liška, LišdusLIŠKAUSKAS, Liškaūskas Aln 4, Alvt, Blnk 10, Brt, Gdr, Kn, Kps, Kr, Lzd, Pns, Žmt (23). Plg. Liškus (žr.).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Latvian, Liekšķere
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Pļāpa
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)- Alois Liškab. 1895GBCzech army general (1895–1977)
- Zdeněk Liškab. 1922CZCzech composer (1922–1983)
- Pavel Liškab. 1971CZCzech actor
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Liška mean, and where does it come from?
- fox, Vulpes, genus within the family Canidae Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Liška?
- In the etymology graph, Лисичка is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Liška?
- It depends on the language: in Czech /ˈlɪʃka/ (Wiktionary); in Slovak /ˈliʃka/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Liška?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 4.8 thousand people named Liška, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled liška. After it come United States, Slovakia, Austria and Germany; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Liška most common?
- Liška is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Liška?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 4,831 people named Liška, about 1 in 2.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Liška compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Liška is the 128th most common surname of 114,573 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/li%C5%A1kaThe 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, “Liška” — ranked 147th in Czechia (MVČR). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.