Misko

surname · Latin script

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

Misko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: shortened form of Miskopoulos, patronymic from the Albanian nickname Miska ‘turkey’.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 368K(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 35K
  • BZBelize≈1 in 56K

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.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈11,000 people, est.

Sources
233 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

shortened form of Miskopoulos, patronymic from the Albanian nickname Miska ‘turkey’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Misko 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 Misko is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈11,000 est.≈1 in 129K—Misko2
PL Poland1,0891 in 35K553—1
US United States9051 in 368K905Misko233
CA Canada≈110 est.≈1 in 346K—Misko31
GB United Kingdom≈110 est.≈1 in 625K—Misko32
CZ Czechia611 in 175K61——
SI Slovenia≈17 est.≈1 in 123K18—2
BZ Belize≈7 est.≈1 in 56K—Misko1

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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; SURS — resident population given names. 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)

Misko is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Netherlands, United Kingdom

    Also written Miśko, Miśko', Mìsko, Miško

  • Ukrainian surname23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Belarus

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Мисько, Місько, Миско, Міско, Misʹko

  • Croatian given name21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Serbia, United States, Slovenia

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian

    Also written Miško, Мишко, Миско, Mishko, Miśko

  • Spanish surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Miško, Mişko, Miskó, Miśko

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium

    Also written Miško, Mişko, Miśko

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Miskó, Miško

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Miško

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

Misko is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from a pet form of a Slavic name derived from the Biblical name Michael: Ukrainian Mychajlo, Slovak Michal, Slovenian Mikael.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • from a pet form of a Ukrainian Mykola, Slovak Mikulds, or some other Slavic equivalent of the personal name Nicholas.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Polish, vocative singular of miska

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

  • In Russian, dim of Mikhail.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Latvian, pilsēta Gvatemalā, galvaspilsētas Gvatemalas piepilsēta, 384400 iedzīvotāju (2002. g.)

    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)

190019502000Stefan Misko, b. 1912John Misko, b. 1954James Misko, b. 1970Igor Misko, b. 1986Alexandr Misko, b. 1997

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 13 countries.

Reference works 5

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 Misko mean, and where does it come from?
shortened form of Miskopoulos, patronymic from the Albanian nickname Miska ‘turkey’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Misko have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Misko in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled misko.
Where is Misko most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Misko is densest in Poland — about 1 in 35 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Misko?
In Poland, the national register counted 1,089 people named Misko in 2026, about 1 in 35 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, “Misko”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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