Paraskeva

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/pæɹəskeɪvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Paraskeva is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.1Kas Параскева(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 37Kas Параскева
  • HRCroatia1 in 235K

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 Paraskeva 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.

Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,300 named Параскева, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
76 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 235K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ParaskevaLatin(measured from records)
ПараскеваCyrillic(measured from records)
პარასკევაGeorgian(measured from records)

Locally spelled Параскева in UA Ukraine, BG Bulgaria, 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Paraskeva 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 Paraskeva is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#439≈3,300 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Параскева32
UA Ukraine#475≈1,200 est.≈1 in 37K—Параскева13
MK North Macedonia—133as Параскева1 in 16K133—1
RU Russia—≈110 est.≈1 in 1.3M#351Параскева76
US United States—≈32 est.≈1 in 11MlistedParaskeva13
HR Croatia—181 in 235K18Paraskeva4
GE Georgia—16as პარასკევა1 in 250K16Paraskeva3

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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); State Statistical Office — living population names; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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)

Paraskeva is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Greek surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Παρασκευα, Paraskeua, Παρασκευά, Πάρασκευα, Παρασκεύα

  • Portuguese name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Paraşkeva

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Paraskevá

30 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

Paraskeva 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 Russian, var of Paraskov'ia.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

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)

100012001400160018002000Paraskeva of the Balkans, b. 1000Paraskeva Clark, b. 1898Paraskeva Simova, b. 1920Paraskeva Maleska-Trojachanec, b. 1930Pasha Hristova, b. 1946Paraskeva Dzhukelova, b. 1970Paraskevi Tsiamita, b. 1972

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)

InformalПривіт, Paraskeva!Hi Paraskeva, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 22 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Paraskeva
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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

How do you pronounce Paraskeva?
A machine transcription gives /pæɹəskeɪvə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
Is Paraskeva a male or female name?
Paraskeva is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Paraskeva have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.3 thousand people named Параскева in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Paraskeva most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paraskeva is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 235 thousand people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Paraskeva?
In Croatia, the national register counted 18 people named Paraskeva in 2021, about 1 in 235 thousand residents.
How common is Paraskeva compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Paraskeva is the 439th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.

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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, “Paraskeva” — the 439th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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