Paloka
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pələʊkə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Paloka is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 129K(measured from records)
- BEBelgium1 in 977K
- PLPoland1 in 6.4M
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 Paloka 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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 10 (measured from records)
- 1 in 129K (inferred from the name graph)
65 people, 2024
recorded for this name
Reference-verified
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Where in the world(measured from records)
Paloka 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | 65 | 1 in 129K | 65 | — | — |
| BE Belgium | 12 | 1 in 977K | 12 | — | — |
| GR Greece | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Paloka | 10 |
| PL Poland | 6 | 1 in 6.4M | 4 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | — | 14 | — | — |
65 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
Paloka 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 Basque, paluka . A palos. Bearluketéla elizagizónek egón palóka ezin apartarázis andik jéndeak. LE ( in BOEanm 519 ) . Beti nai izaten neban / ibili burruka, / arrika ta ukabilka / nai bardin paluka. Azc PB 340.
as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia
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)
- Edi Palokab. 1965ALAlbanian politician
- Lizabeta Palokab. 1992ALAlbanian association football player
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 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 65 | #15,331 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 14 | #114,673 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 12 | #64,733 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #235,318 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #376,624 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Paloka?
- A machine transcription gives /pələʊkə/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Paloka have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 65 people named Paloka, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Paloka most common?
- Paloka is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 129 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Paloka?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 65 people named Paloka in 2024, about 1 in 129 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Paloka?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/palokaThe 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, “Paloka”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.