Troska

surname · Latin script

Meaning: care

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

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.8M(measured from records)
  • LCSt. Lucia≈1 in 24K
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 88K

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.

Poland (measured from records)

380 people, 2026

Sources
96 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)

St. Lucia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

care

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Troska 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 Troska is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—3801 in 101K203—1
DE Germany—≈270 est.≈1 in 302K—Troska57
US United States—1861 in 1.8M202Troska96
ZA South Africa—≈71 est.≈1 in 801K—Troska1
CZ Czechia—211 in 510K21——
EE Estonia—≈14 est.≈1 in 88K33—2
LC St. Lucia#989≈7 est.≈1 in 24K—Troska1

380 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017; the ee-stat-nimed 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)

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

  • Polish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Czechia, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Troška, Třoska

  • Latvian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Troška

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Troška

22 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)

Troska is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In sla-pro, chip, sliver, spall, splinter

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, wreckage

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Serbo-Croatian, »zgura, gar, šljaknja, tara; talog što ostane kad se što topi«

    as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)

  • In Basque, Rosca. Troska ateratzen egun bat. HerVal 182.

    as a wordOrotariko Euskal Hiztegia (OEH) — General/Historical Basque Dictionary, Euskaltzaindia

  • In Basque, "(V-gip; FSeg), peñón saliente" A .

    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)

1850190019502000J. M. Troska, b. 1881Gea Troska, b. 1926Jerzy Troska, b. 1941Oliver Troska, b. 1988

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)

FormalDear Troska,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Troska
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026203—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—203#15,998
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020202#96,572
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000197#87,729
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010186#97,671
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026177—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—177#18,446
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—33#3,160
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—29#3,769
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • 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 Troska mean, and where does it come from?
care Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Troska?
A machine transcription gives /tɹəskə/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Troska have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 380 people named Troska, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Troska?
In Poland, the national register counted 380 people named Troska in 2026, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
How common is Troska compared with other names?
In St. Lucia, Troska is the 989th most common surname of 1,667 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, “Troska” — the 989th most common surname in St. Lucia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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