Pleška
surname · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of pleš
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
/ˈpʎeʃka/(recorded in a dictionary) Slovak · from Wiktionary
Pleška is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country.
- BEBelgium1 in 837K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 323Kas Plesca
- ESSpain1 in 347Kas Plesca
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 Pleška itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. 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.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 38 (measured from records)
- 1 in 274K (inferred from the name graph)
144 named Plesca
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Pleska in US United States, CZ Czechia, PL Poland and Плеска in UA Ukraine.
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)diminutive of pleš
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pleška 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 144as Plesca | 1 in 347K | 144 | — | — |
| US United States | 116 | 1 in 2.9M | 116 | Pleska | 7 |
| PL Poland | 47as Pleșca | 1 in 815K | 31 | Pleska | 3 |
| CZ Czechia | 39 | 1 in 274K | 39 | Pleska | 12 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈36 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Плеска | 9 |
| CH Switzerland | 26as Plesca | 1 in 323K | 26 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 15as Plesca | 1 in 391K | 15 | — | — |
144 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Pleška is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Plg. Pleikis, Pleškys, Pleškus (žr.). Pvd. su šaknimi piešk- kilmė galėtų būti nevienoda, plg. liet. pleškėti „garsiai Šaukti, rėkauti, triukšmauti; daug ir garsiai šnekėti, plepėti, taukšti ir kt.“ (LKŽ X 173) ir brus. avd. Пляшko, Плешко, rus. Плешко (M. Бирыла, 1969, c. 328), Плешко (CAMC III 729), Плягико (ten pat, 733)
as a nameLietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Lithuanian, Plg. Pleškis, Pleškjs, Plėškus (žr.). Pvd. su šaknimi plešk- kilmė galėtų būti nevienoda, plg. liet. pleškėti „garsiai šaukti, rėkauti, triukšmauti; daug ir garsiai šnekėti, plepėti, taukšti ir kt.“ (LKŽ X 173) ir brus. avd. IZnawxo, Ilneuxko, rus. ITnewko (M. Bup»rna, 1969, c. 328), IInewko (CAMC III 729), ITZnauko (ten pat, 733).
as a wordVanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
In Latvian, Pliks pauris; pļeška
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 6 | #103,891 |
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
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 Pleška mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of pleš Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Pleška?
- In Slovak /ˈpʎeʃka/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Pleška have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 144 people named Plesca, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Pleška most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pleška is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 274 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pleška?
- In the United States, the national register counted 116 people named Pleška in 2010, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ple%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, “Pleška”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.