Mozga
surname · Latin script
Meaning: any plant of the genus Phalaris; canary grass (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈmɔz.ɡa/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Mozga is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 396 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026.
- CZCzechia1 in 81K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 97K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 410K
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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 28 (measured from records)
- 1 in 81K (inferred from the name graph)
396 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Mozga
- Polish:/ˈmɔz.ɡa/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Hungarian:/mozɡɒ/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)any plant of the genus Phalaris; canary grass
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Mozga is found
(measured from records)Mozga 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 | 396 | 1 in 97K | 210 | Mozga | 28 |
| CZ Czechia | 132 | 1 in 81K | 133 | Mozga | 10 |
| US United States | ≈34 est. | ≈1 in 10M | — | Mozga | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 19M | — | Mozga | 4 |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 409K | listed | — | — |
396 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); MVČR — living population register 2017; KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end). 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)Mozga 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 Serbo-Croatian, genitive singular of mozak
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)- Pavel Mozgab. 1945CZCzechoslovak politician
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mozga mean, and where does it come from?
- any plant of the genus Phalaris; canary grass Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Mozga?
- It depends on the language: in Polish /ˈmɔz.ɡa/ (Wiktionary); in Hungarian /mozɡɒ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Mozga?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 396 people named Mozga, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mozga. After it come Czechia, United States, United Kingdom and Estonia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Mozga most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mozga is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 81 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mozga?
- In Poland, the national register counted 396 people named Mozga in 2026, about 1 in 97 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mozgaThe 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, “Mozga” — ranked 15703rd in Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.