Moskal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ethnic name for a Muscovite, also used to refer to Russians in general (often with a slightly pejorative sense) (Dictionary of American Family Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 13 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈmɔs.kal/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Moskal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 7,058 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Moskal is also written Москаль in Cyrillic.
- PLPoland1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 68K
- USUnited States1 in 171K
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 Moskal 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
7,058 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Moskal in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Москаль in UA Ukraine, 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.
How to pronounce Moskal
- Polish:/ˈmɔs.kal/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Ukrainian:/mɔˈskalʲ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)ethnic name for a Muscovite, also used to refer to Russians in general (often with a slightly pejorative sense).
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Moskal is found
(measured from records)Moskal 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #655 | 7,058 | 1 in 5.4K | 3.5K | Moskal | 90 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Москаль | 29 |
| US United States | — | 1,949 | 1 in 171K | 2K | Moskal | 86 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈660 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Москаль | 102 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Moskal | 20 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 110K | — | Moskal | 11 |
| NO Norway | — | 80 | 1 in 68K | 80 | Moskal | 8 |
7,058 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)Moskal 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 Polish, Muscovite
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)- Hennadii Moskalb. 1950UAUkrainian politician (1950–2024)
- Beata Moskal-Słaniewskab. 1966PLpolitician
- Kazimierz Moskalb. 1967PLPolish footballer
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)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 13 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Moskal mean, and where does it come from?
- ethnic name for a Muscovite, also used to refer to Russians in general (often with a slightly pejorative sense). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Moskal?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /ˈmɔs.kal/ (Wiktionary); in Ukrainian /mɔˈskalʲ/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Moskal?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 7.1 thousand people named Moskal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moskal. After it come Ukraine, United States, Russia and Slovakia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Moskal most common?
- Moskal is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 5.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Moskal?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7,058 people named Moskal in 2026, about 1 in 5.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Moskal compared with other names?
- In Poland, Moskal is the 655th most common surname of 240,840 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/moskalThe 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, “Moskal” — ranked 643rd in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.