Peško

surname · Latin script

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

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 37K(measured from records)
  • SKSlovakia≈1 in 84K
  • PLPoland1 in 120K

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.

Poland (measured from records)

319 people, 2026

Sources
23 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Pesko in US United States and Pęśko in 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.

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Peško 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 Peško is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland3191 in 120K164Pęśko13
US United States2641 in 1.3M264Pesko4
SK Slovakia≈65 est.≈1 in 84K—Peško23
SI Slovenia571 in 37K57——
CZ Czechia511 in 210K51Peško11
NO Norway81 in 683K8——

319 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

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

  • Croatian surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Croatia, Serbia, Sweden

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Pesko, Пешко, Peshko, Pęśko

  • Lithuanian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, Norway

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Pesko

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Pesko, Peskó

  • English surname7 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Hungarian

    Also written Pesko, Peskó

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Pesko

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Peško
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—51#28,953

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

In which country does Peško have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 319 people named Peško, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pęśko.
Where is Peško most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Peško is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 37 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Peško?
In Poland, the national register counted 319 people named Peško in 2026, about 1 in 120 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, “Peško”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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