Peška

surname · Latin script

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

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

Peška is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 13K(measured from records)
  • HRCroatia1 in 103K
  • SKSlovakia1 in 165K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

824 people

Sources
26 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 13K (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 Peska in US United States, 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Peška 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 Peška is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia8241 in 13K824Peška26
US United States3241 in 1M324Peska13
PL Poland1771 in 216K177Peska15
HR Croatia411 in 103K41——
SK Slovakia331 in 165K33Peška5

824 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • Croatian surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, Serbia

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Пешка, Peska, Peshka

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Peska, Pěška

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Peska, Pěška

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India

    Also written Peska

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Peska

1 further group 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)

Peška 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.

  • In Latvian, Nenozīmīgs cilvēks; cilvēks, ko izrīko citi

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Bandinieks (šahā)

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Ķildīgs cilvēks

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Galva

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Acis

    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)

18001850190019502000Bedřich Peška, b. 1820Zdeněk Peška, b. 1900Pavel Peška, b. 1926Jaroslav Peška, b. 1960Vladimír Peška, b. 1985Adam Peška, 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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Peška
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—824#1,708
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—822#1,692
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202141#15,267
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)202133—
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)199533—

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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

How do you pronounce Peška?
A machine transcription gives /pɛʃka/ (IPA) for Czech.
In which country does Peška have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 824 people named Peška, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peška.
Where is Peška most common?
Peška is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 13 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Peška?
In Czechia, the national register counted 824 people named Peška, about 1 in 13 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, “Peška”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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