Mesika
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mesika is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 3Kas מסיקה(measured from records)
- CYCyprus≈1 in 68K
- LYLibya≈1 in 3.6Kas מסיקה
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 Mesika 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 62 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
2,873 named מסיקה, 2017
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled מסיקה in IL Israel, LY Libya, IQ Iraq and 3 more.
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)
Mesika 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #250 | 2,873as מסיקה | 1 in 3K | 2.9K | מסיקה | 50 |
| LY Libya | #177 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | מסיקה | 3 |
| IQ Iraq | #818 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | מסיקה | 1 |
| TN Tunisia | #906 | ≈890 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | מסיקה | 2 |
| MA Morocco | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 206K | — | מסיקה | 3 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | מסיקה | 1 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Mesika | 4 |
2,873 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"). 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)
Mesika is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Meshika.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Gershon Mesikab. 1952ILIsraeli politician
- Yamin Messikab. 1957ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli film director
- Miri Mesikab. 1978ILIsraeli singer
- Erez Mesikab. 1979ILIsraeli footballer
- Gal Mesikab. 1988ILassociation football player
- Reef Messikab. 1989ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli footballer
- Dolev Mesikab. 1994ILIsraeli 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Mesika have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 2.9 thousand people named מסיקה, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mesika?
- In Israel, the national register counted 2,873 people named מסיקה in 2017, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Mesika compared with other names?
- In Israel, Mesika is the 250th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mesika?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mesikaThe 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, “Mesika” — the 250th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.