Briška

surname · Latin script

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

rarermore common
  • LVLatvia≈1 in 18K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NONorway1 in 547K
  • BEBelgium1 in 781K

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.

Latvia (inferred from the name graph)

≈110 people, est.

Sources
16 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

recorded in Lithuanian

Plg. lat. Briška (RTAS 86), Briška k., Briškas k. (J. Endzelins, 1956, p. 130), lenk. Brzyszko (SSNO I 269), Bryszkowski (S. Rospond, 1967, p. 92), vok. < sl. Brischke (M. Gottschald, 1954, p. 208).

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Briška 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 Briška is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
LV Latvia≈110 est.≈1 in 18K—Briška16
BE Belgium151 in 781K15——
NO Norway101 in 547K10—1
PL Poland31 in 13M3——
NL Netherlands≈2 est.≈1 in 7.4M7—1

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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (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)

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

  • Slovak surname11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Briska, Bříška, Břiská, Bríška, Bríska

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Briska, Briská

  • Slovenian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Briska

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Briska

7 further groups 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.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Reference works 2

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • 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

In which country does Briška have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 107 people named Briška in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled briška.
How common is the name Briška?
In Belgium, the national register counted 15 people named Briška in 2008, about 1 in 781 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, “Briška”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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