Piskun

surname · Latin script

Meaning: A transliteration of the Belarusian surname Піскун (Piskun)

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

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

rarermore common
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 5.2Kas Пискун(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 8.7Kas Піскун
  • RURussia≈1 in 41Kas Пискун

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 Piskun 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.

Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)

≈5,000 named Піскун, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
128 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 72K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PiskunLatin(measured from records)
ПискунCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Пискун in RU Russia, BY Belarus, TW Taiwan and Піскун in UA Ukraine.

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)

A transliteration of the Belarusian surname Піскун (Piskun).

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Piskun 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 Piskun is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine#625≈5,000 est.≈1 in 8.7K—Піскун47
RU Russia—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 41K—Пискун128
BY Belarus#265≈1,800 est.≈1 in 5.2K—Пискун20
TW Taiwan—≈1,200 est.≈1 in 20K—Пискун1
PL Poland—5311 in 72K272Piskun13

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). 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)

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

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, United States, Russia, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Piskún

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Pìskun

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Pìskun

  • Croatian surname9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Пискун, Piskuń, Pìskun

26 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)

Piskun 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, "fish."

    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)

19201940196019802000Jerzy Piskun, b. 1938Sviatoslav Piskun, b. 1959Eduard Piskun, b. 1967Elena Piskun, b. 1978Vladyslav Piskun, b. 1984

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Piskun
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026272—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—272#12,018
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026259—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—259#12,836

Reference works 1

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 Piskun mean, and where does it come from?
A transliteration of the Belarusian surname Піскун (Piskun). Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Piskun have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Піскун in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Piskun most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Piskun is densest in Poland — about 1 in 72 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Piskun?
In Poland, the national register counted 531 people named Piskun in 2026, about 1 in 72 thousand residents.
How common is Piskun compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Piskun is the 625th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames 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, “Piskun” — the 625th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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