Maruska
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a pet form of the female personal name Czech Maruse, Ukrainian Marush, itself a pet form of Maria (Czech Mari, Ukrainian Marija) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: SSA, 2019
Maruska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 668 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010.
- SKSlovakia1 in 28K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia≈1 in 150K
- SISlovenia≈1 in 410K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- 1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
668 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovakia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a pet form of the female personal name Czech Maruse, Ukrainian Marush, itself a pet form of Maria (Czech Mari, Ukrainian Marija).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Maruska is found
(measured from records)Maruska 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 668 | 1 in 498K | 668 | Maruska | 183 |
| SK Slovakia | 195 | 1 in 28K | 195 | — | — |
| DE Germany | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 543K | — | Maruska | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 688K | — | Maruska | 21 |
| CZ Czechia | ≈72 est. | ≈1 in 150K | 412 | — | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 409K | 237 | — | 5 |
| BB Barbados | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 69K | — | Maruska | 1 |
| AG Antigua & Barbuda | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Maruska | 1 |
668 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; SURS — resident population given names; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jil Maruskab. 1995DEGerman association football 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)28 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Maruska mean, and where does it come from?
- from a pet form of the female personal name Czech Maruse, Ukrainian Marush, itself a pet form of Maria (Czech Mari, Ukrainian Marija). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Maruska?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 668 people named Maruska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled maruska. After it come Slovakia, Germany, United Kingdom and Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Maruska most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Maruska is densest in Slovakia — about 1 in 28 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Maruska?
- In the United States, the national register counted 668 people named Maruska in 2010, about 1 in 498 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maruskaThe 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, “Maruska” — ranked 33563rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2010). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.