Vaškys
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Plg. Vaškas, Vaškis, Vūškius, Vūškus (žr.) (Vanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ʋaʃkʲis/(machine-generated) Lithuanian · model-generated
Vaškys is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 14Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 456K
- DKDenmark1 in 2M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 25 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈210 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Vaskys in US United States, ZA South Africa.
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.
How to pronounce Vaškys
- Lithuanian:/ʋaʃkʲis/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Plg. Vaškas, Vaškis, Vūškius, Vūškus (žr.). Toliau šios pvd. sietinos su lenk. Waszka, Waszko, Waszek : Jan (SSNO VI 29 —30), brus. Bauxo ; Hoaun (M. bapsmna, 1966, c. 87) ar pan.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Vanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Where the surname Vaškys is found
(measured from records)Vaškys 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #979 | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Vaškys | 25 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Vaskys | 5 |
| US United States | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 28M | — | Vaskys | 21 |
| NO Norway | — | 12 | 1 in 456K | 12 | — | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 8 | 1 in 4.8M | 5 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 3 | 1 in 3.4M | 3 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 3 | 1 in 2M | 3 | — | — |
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: SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Augenijus Vaškysb. 1972LTLithuanian basketball player (born 1972)
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)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Vaškys?
- In Lithuanian /ʋaʃkʲis/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Vaškys mean?
- Recorded meaning: Plg. Vaškas, Vaškis, Vūškius, Vūškus (žr.).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Vaškys?
- Mondonomo estimates about 210 people named Vaškys in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vaškys. After it come South Africa, United States, Norway and Poland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Vaškys?
- In Norway, the national register counted 12 people named Vaškys, about 1 in 456 thousand residents.
- How common is Vaškys compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Vaškys is the 979th most common surname of 43,479 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/va%C5%A1kysThe 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, “Vaškys” — the 979th most common surname in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.