Moskal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ethnic name for a Muscovite, also used to refer to Russians in general (often with a slightly pejorative sense)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ˈmɑskəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Moskal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 5.4K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 19Kas Москаль
- RURussia≈1 in 226Kas Москаль
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)
- Sources
- 102 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4K (inferred from the name graph)
7,058 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
ethnic name for a Muscovite, also used to refer to Russians in general (often with a slightly pejorative sense).
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 |
| CN China | — | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 247K | — | Moskal | 2 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Москаль | 29 |
| US United States | — | 1,949 | 1 in 171K | 2K | Moskal | 86 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈630 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Москаль | 102 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Moskal | 20 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 107K | — | Moskal | 1 |
| 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)
- Edward Moskalb. 1924PLAmerican activist (1924–2005)
- Hennadii Moskalb. 1950UAUkrainian politician (1950–2024)
- Piotr Moskalb. 1955PLPolish philosopher, Roman Catholic priest
- Kazimierz Moskalb. 1962PLPolish politician
- Beata Moskal-Słaniewskab. 1966PLpolitician
- Kazimierz Moskalb. 1967PLPolish footballer
- Tomasz Moskalb. 1975PLPolish footballer
- Michał Moskalb. 1981PLPolish computer scientist
- Paweł MoskalPLPolish physicist
- Anna Kuryliszyn-MoskalPLPolish rheumatologist and researcher
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 26 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.5K | #643 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.5K | #643 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2K | #14,108 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1.9K | #15,127 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.9K | #15,207 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 80 | #18,422 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmɑskəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Moskal have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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” — the 655th most common surname in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.