Mishka
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Mishka is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in South Africa than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 469K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 39K
- JMJamaica≈1 in 59K
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.
- South Africa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 169 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 people, est.
Highest-authority source
South Africa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mishka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Mishka | 56 |
| US United States | 709 | 1 in 469K | 669 | Mishka | 169 |
| AU Australia | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 209K | 1 | Mishka | 54 |
| RU Russia | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Mishka | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 824K | — | Mishka | 66 |
| JM Jamaica | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Mishka | 9 |
| IL Israel | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 373K | — | Mishka | 10 |
| GY Guyana | 2 | 1 in 375K | 2 | — | 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Mishka 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, dim of Mikhail.
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 25 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mishka a male or female name?
- Mishka is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What are other forms of the name Mishka?
- In the etymology graph, Michael, Mike and Micheal are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mishka have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Mishka in South Africa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mishka.
- How common is the name Mishka?
- In the United States, the national register counted 709 people named Mishka in 2020, about 1 in 469 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Mishka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mishkaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mishka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.