Kiske
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kisk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kiske is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 11M(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 5.1Mas Кіске
- RURussia≈1 in 26Mas Киске
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Kiske itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 17 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11M (inferred from the name graph)
≈9 named Кіске, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кіске in UA Ukraine and Киске in RU Russia.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kiske 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Кіске | 7 |
| RU Russia | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 26M | — | Киске | 17 |
| CZ Czechia | 1 | 1 in 11M | 1 | — | — |
| NL Netherlands | — | — | 6 | — | — |
| US United States | — | — | listed | — | — |
| IN India | — | — | 20 | — | — |
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: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); MVČR — living population register 2017; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; the in-instate-surnames-bystate 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Uwe Kiskeb. 1963DEGerman badminton player
- Michael Kiskeb. 1968DEGerman singer
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 20 | #20,494 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 1 | #200,636 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Kiske?
- A machine transcription gives /kisk/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Kiske have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9 people named Кіске in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kiske most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kiske is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 11 million people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kiske?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1 people named Kiske, about 1 in 11 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kiske?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kiskeThe 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, “Kiske”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.