Liška
surname · Latin script
Meaning: fox, Vulpes, genus within the family Canidae
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/lɪʃka/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Liška is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 2.2K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 107Kas Лиска
- SKSlovakia1 in 5.9K
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. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 76 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
4,831 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Лиска in UA Ukraine, 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
fox, Vulpes, genus within the family Canidae
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Лиска | 12 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 232K | listed | — | — |
| AT Austria | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 33K | 2 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | — | 64 | 1 in 66K | 64 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 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)
- Jan Kryštof Liškab. 1650DECzech painter (1650-1712)
- Jan Liškab. 1890CZCzech teacher and mayor (1890-1976)
- Alois Liškab. 1895GBCzech army general (1895–1977)
- Zdeněk Liškab. 1922CZCzech composer (1922–1983)
- Antonín Liškab. 1924CZCzech theologist (1924-2003)
- Ivan Liškab. 1950DECzech-German dancer
- Pavel Liškab. 1971CZCzech actor
- Ondřej Liškab. 1977CZCzech politician
- Kristýna Bokováb. 1981CZnot in their usual nameCzech actress
- Adam Liškab. 1999SKSlovak ice hockey player
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)
Attested in 15 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 4.8K | #148 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 4.8K | #147 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 4.8K | #147 |
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 918 | — |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 64 | #11,225 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 57 | — |
Reference works 5
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
- 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 Liška mean, and where does it come from?
- fox, Vulpes, genus within the family Canidae Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Liška?
- A machine transcription gives /lɪʃka/ (IPA) for Czech.
- What are other forms of the name Liška?
- In the etymology graph, Лисичка is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Liška have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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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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” — the 128th most common surname in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.