Deska
surname · Latin script
Meaning: board, plank (piece of wood)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/dɛska/(machine-generated) Polish · model-generated
Deska is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Indonesia than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 30K(measured from records)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 100K
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M
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.
- Indonesia (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 50 (measured from records)
- 1 in 30K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,800 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)board, plank (piece of wood)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Deska 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ID Indonesia | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 100K | listed | — | — |
| PL Poland | 1,292 | 1 in 30K | 650 | Deska | 50 |
| US United States | 120 | 1 in 2.8M | 120 | Deska | 27 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 2.4M | — | Deska | 10 |
| CA Canada | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Deska | 5 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)Deska 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 Czech, board (relatively long, wide and thin piece of sawn wood or similar material, usually intended for use in construction)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, board
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Marek Deskab. 1985CACanadian-Polish baseball player
- Helene DeskaDEGerman actor
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 650 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 650 | #4,942 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 642 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 642 | #4,913 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 120 | #139,228 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 120 | #130,443 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Deska mean, and where does it come from?
- board, plank (piece of wood) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Deska?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /dɛska/; in Indonesian /dəska/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Deska have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.8 thousand people named Deska in Indonesia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Deska most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Deska is densest in Poland — about 1 in 30 thousand people — even though Indonesia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Deska?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,292 people named Deska in 2026, about 1 in 30 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deskaThe 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, “Deska”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.