Niskala
surname · Latin script
Meaning: a Finnish surname from landscape
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɲiskɑɫə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Niskala is a surname written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- USUnited States
- FIFinland
- SESweden
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a Finnish surname from landscape
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
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)Niskala is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Dattatreya (N); GaneSa (N); Hanuman
as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names
In Malay, abstract, not concrete
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)- Markus Niskalab. 1890FIFinnish politician
- Martti Niskalab. 1911FIFinnish politician
- Markku Niskalab. 1945FISecretary-General - International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
- Teija Virkbergb. 1963FInot in their usual nameFinnish middle-distance runner
- Meiju Niskalab. 1978FIFinnish writer
- Janne Niskalab. 1981FIFinnish ice hockey player
- Mika Niskalab. 1981FIFinnish footballer
- Pyry Niskalab. 1990FIFinnish athletics competitor
- Essi Niskalab. 2005FIFinnish sprinter
- Marko NiskalaFIFinnish musician
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 3K | #650 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 1.3K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 174 | #96,918 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 173 | #103,655 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 165 | #113,026 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 119 | #6,263 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Niskala mean, and where does it come from?
- a Finnish surname from landscape Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Niskala?
- In the etymology graph, Niskanen is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Niskala?
- A machine transcription gives /ɲiskɑɫə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Niskala have the most bearers?
- Niskala is most frequently recorded in the United States.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/niskalaThe 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, “Niskala”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.