Mikš

surname · Latin script

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026

/mɪkʃ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mikš is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: First recorded in 1590. From Miķelis (“Michael”).

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 40K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 186K
  • HRCroatia1 in 384K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

270 people

Record sources
21 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 40K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Miks in PL Poland.

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)

First recorded in 1590. From Miķelis (“Michael”).

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Mikš 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 Mikš is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia2701 in 40K270Mikš21
US United States1761 in 1.9M183—2
PL Poland941 in 407K52MikS17
BR Brazil911 in 2.3M91——
FI Finland301 in 186K30——
HR Croatia111 in 384K11——
DK Denmark≈8 est.≈1 in 706K7——

270 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way

(inferred from the name graph)

Mikš is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia

    Also written MikS, Микс

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written MikS

  • Danish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark

    Languages: Danish, Swedish

    Also written MikS

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written MikS

  • Portuguese surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Portugal

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written MikS

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Mikš is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In vep, why, because of what, for what reason (interrogative)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)
175018001850190019502000Josip Mikš, b. 1778František Mikš, b. 1852Josef Mikš, b. 1853Josef Mikš, b. 1865Arnošt Mikš, b. 1913František Mikš, b. 1966

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)
FormalVážený pane / paní Mikš,Dear Mikš, (English)
InformalVážený pane / paní Mikš,Hello, (English)

Evidence

(measured from records)

7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.

Official registers attesting Mikš
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—270#6,165
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202111#30,833
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202110—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#202,166
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20263—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—3#277,148

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Mikš mean, and where does it come from?
First recorded in 1590. From Miķelis (“Michael”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Mikš?
A machine transcription gives /mɪkʃ/ (IPA) for Czech.
In which country does Mikš have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 270 people named Mikš, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mikš.
Where is Mikš most common?
Mikš is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 40 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Mikš?
In Czechia, the national register counted 270 people named Mikš, about 1 in 40 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, “Mikš”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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