Piroska
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/piroʃkɒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Piroska is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country. Recorded meaning: piros (“red”) + -ka (diminutive suffix).
- HUHungary1 in 303(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M
- RORomania≈1 in 22K
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.
- Hungary (measured from records)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 303 (inferred from the name graph)
32,201 people, 2025
Highest-authority source
Hungary
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
piros (“red”) + -ka (diminutive suffix)
Sources 2
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Piroska 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #237 | 32,201 | 1 in 303 | 32K | Piroska | 104 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Piroska | 21 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 288K | — | Piroska | 53 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 44K | 5 | Piroska | 22 |
| US United States | — | 159 | 1 in 2.1M | 159 | Piroska | 79 |
| SK Slovakia | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Piroska | 17 |
| HR Croatia | — | 62 | 1 in 68K | 62 | — | — |
32,201 people counted by Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025), 2025. 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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Irene of Hungaryb. 1088HUnot in their usual nameEmpress consort of the Byzantine Empire (d. 1134)
- Piroska Reichardb. 1884HUHungarian poet, translator (1884-1943)
- Piroska Andayb. 1899HUopera singer (1899–1977)
- Piroska Mártonb. 1899HUHungarian actress (1899–1996)
- Piri Vaszaryb. 1901HUnot in their usual nameHungarian actress (1901-1965)
- Piroska Szekrényessyb. 1916HUHungarian figure skater (1916-1990)
- Piroska Molnárb. 1945HUHungarian actress
- Angelica Bellab. 1968HUnot in their usual nameHungarian pornographic actress (1968–2021)
- Kati Pirib. 1979NLnot in their usual nameHungarian-born Dutch politician
- Simony Diamondb. 1983HUnot in their usual nameHungarian pornographic actress
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)
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 32 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Piroska mean, and where does it come from?
- piros (“red”) + -ka (diminutive suffix) Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- What are other forms of the name Piroska?
- In the etymology graph, Prisca, Sissy and Cece are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Piroska?
- A machine transcription gives /piroʃkɒ/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- Is Piroska a male or female name?
- Piroska 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 Piroska have the most bearers?
- In Hungary, the national register counted about 32 thousand people named Piroska, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled piroska.
- Where is Piroska most common?
- Piroska is densest in Hungary, where the national register counts about 1 in 303 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Piroska?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 32,201 people named Piroska in 2025, about 1 in 303 residents.
- How common is Piroska compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Piroska is the 237th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/piroskaThe 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, “Piroska” — the 237th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.