Pliška

surname · Latin script

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

Pliška is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Bulgarian Плиска (Pliska). The age of the city is unclear. Traditional claims that it was founded in the 7th century have not been supported by archaeological evidence.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 22Kas Плиска(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 419Kas Плиска
  • CZCzechia1 in 30K

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 Pliška 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.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈2,000 named Плиска, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
89 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ПлискаCyrillic(measured from records)
PlyskaLatin(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Плиска in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, BY Belarus, Pliska in US United States, CZ Czechia and Plyska in SK Slovakia.

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)

From Bulgarian Плиска (Pliska). The age of the city is unclear. Traditional claims that it was founded in the 7th century have not been supported by archaeological evidence.

Sources 2

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pliška 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 Pliška is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine≈2,000 est.≈1 in 22K—Плиска32
US United States7391 in 450K739Pliska36
CZ Czechia3541 in 30K354Pliska27
RU Russia≈340 est.≈1 in 419K—Плиска89
BR Brazil1031 in 2.1M103——
SK Slovakia541 in 101K54Plyska6
BY Belarus≈27 est.≈1 in 355K—Плиска7
CH Switzerland231 in 365K23—2

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; MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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)

Pliška is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname12 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Pliska, Pļiska

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pliska

  • Hungarian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary

    Also written Pliska

  • Estonian name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Pliska

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)

Pliška is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In hsb, wagtail (any bird of the genus Motacilla)

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

  • In Latvian, Parastais plikstiņš ("Capsella bursa-pastoris")

    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)

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

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Pliška
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SK SlovakiaJÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census)199554—
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—11#78,190

Reference works 2

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • 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 Pliška mean, and where does it come from?
From Bulgarian Плиска (Pliska). The age of the city is unclear. Traditional claims that it was founded in the 7th century have not been supported by archaeological evidence. Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames) and Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Pliška?
A machine transcription gives /pliʃka/ (IPA) for Slovak.
In which country does Pliška have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Плиска in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pliška most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pliška is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 30 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pliška?
In the United States, the national register counted 739 people named Pliška in 2010, about 1 in 450 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, “Pliška”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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