Neška
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Neška is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: girl; unmarried young woman; serving girl; fallen woman; iron bar in a fireplace from which a cooking pot is suspended.
- HRCroatia1 in 384K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 421K
- CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M
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 Neška 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 23 (measured from records)
- 1 in 384K (inferred from the name graph)
≈88 named Neshka, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Neshka in BG Bulgaria.
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)
girl; unmarried young woman; serving girl; fallen woman; iron bar in a fireplace from which a cooking pot is suspended
Sources 1
- Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neška 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Neshka | 23 |
| MK North Macedonia | 12as Нешка | 1 in 177K | 12 | — | 1 |
| HR Croatia | 11 | 1 in 384K | 11 | Neška | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | 5 | 1 in 421K | 5 | — | 1 |
| CR Costa Rica | 1 | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | — |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 11 | #5,310 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 5 | #3,850 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 5 | #3,801 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 5 | #3,598 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 5 | #3,549 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 5 | #3,497 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 5 | #3,465 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 5 | #3,418 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 5 | #3,394 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 5 | #3,350 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 5 | #3,318 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 5 | #3,273 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Neška mean, and where does it come from?
- girl; unmarried young woman; serving girl; fallen woman; iron bar in a fireplace from which a cooking pot is suspended Recorded by Trask, Etymological Dictionary of Basque (2008 posthumous draft).
- Is Neška a male or female name?
- Neška is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Neška have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 88 people named Neshka in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Neška most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Neška is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 384 thousand people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Neška?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 11 people named Neška in 2021, about 1 in 384 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ne%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, “Neška”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.