Muska
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Americanized spelling of Muszka, an old ethnic name for a Russian
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈməskə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Muska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 659K(measured from records)
- BMBermuda≈1 in 16K
- SKSlovakia1 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). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 185 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
505 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Bermuda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Americanized spelling of Muszka, an old ethnic name for a Russian.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Muska 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 505 | 1 in 659K | 524 | Muska | 185 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 292 | 1 in 37K | 292 | — | 2 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 181 | 1 in 30K | 181 | — | 1 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 184K | — | Muska | 1 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 464K | 1 | Muska | 2 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 88K | 3 | — | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 20 | — | 5 |
| BM Bermuda | #201 | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Muska | 1 |
505 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)
Muska 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.
Czech and Slovak (Muska); nickname from muska, diminutive of moucha ‘fly’.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Polish, third-person singular present of muskać
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Esperanto, mossy, moss-grown
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Turkish, amulet, charm
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Basque, Pidiendo descarte en el juego de mus. Joko haundian trebe ez dena artzen da pollikiño muska, idekika, ttanttoka mantxaren irabazterat . Herr 14-8-1965, 4.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Susan Muskab. 1958filmmaker (born 1958)
- Chad Muskab. 1977USAmerican skateboarder
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)
Attested in 32 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 524 | #44,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 523 | #39,560 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 505 | #42,858 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 20 | #5,647 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 18 | #57,726 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 18 | #15,844 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 9 | #11,532 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Muska mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling of Muszka, an old ethnic name for a Russian. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Muska?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈməskə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Muska have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 505 people named Muska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled muska.
- How common is the name Muska?
- In the United States, the national register counted 505 people named Muska in 2010, about 1 in 659 thousand residents.
- How common is Muska compared with other names?
- In Bermuda, Muska is the 201st most common surname of 6,699 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/muskaThe 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, “Muska” — the 201st most common surname in Bermuda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.