Moška

surname · Latin script

Meaning: — žr. Maškus

Moška is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PLPoland1 in 91K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 1.2M
  • SESweden≈1 in 1.4M

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)

423 people, 2026

Sources
39 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 91K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Moska in PL Poland, CZ Czechia, GB United Kingdom and 1 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(measured from records)

— žr. Maškus

Sources 1

  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Moška 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.

Where Moška is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland4231 in 91K213Moska39
US United States≈31 est.≈1 in 11M5Moska4
GB United Kingdom≈13 est.≈1 in 4.9M—Moska9
CZ Czechia91 in 1.2M9Moska10
SE Sweden≈7 est.≈1 in 1.4M27—4
NL Netherlands51 in 3.5M20—1
FI Finland≈2 est.≈1 in 2.8M10—1

423 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); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Moška is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lithuanian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania

    Also written Moska

  • English surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Moska

  • Croatian surname14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Croatia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Slovenian, Bulgarian

    Also written Mosca, Möska, Moska, Моска

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Moska

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Moška is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In izh, midge

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Latvian, Kukainis, parasti kāds no lakstaugu kaitēkļiem

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Neuzvedīgs, netīrīgs cilvēks

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Varbūt, iespējams, kas zina

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

  • In Latvian, Lempīga, neveikla sieviete

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Moška
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—9#85,231

Reference works 2

  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)

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 Moška mean, and where does it come from?
— žr. Maškus Recorded by Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames).
In which country does Moška have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 423 people named Moška, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled moska.
Where is Moška most common?
Moška is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 91 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Moška?
In Poland, the national register counted 423 people named Moška in 2026, about 1 in 91 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

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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, “Moška”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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