Kiska Surname
Approximately 7,311 people bear this surname
Kiska Surname Distribution Map
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia | 5,653 | 1:25,495 | 3,593 |
| Belarus | 477 | 1:19,918 | 3,358 |
| United States | 358 | 1:1,012,455 | 74,653 |
| Kazakhstan | 184 | 1:96,101 | 10,780 |
| Slovakia | 113 | 1:47,225 | 9,049 |
| India | 92 | 1:8,337,667 | 172,929 |
| Turkey | 58 | 1:1,341,749 | 54,680 |
| Hungary | 46 | 1:213,397 | 17,734 |
| Brazil | 45 | 1:4,757,207 | 124,005 |
| North Macedonia | 33 | 1:63,681 | 6,407 |
| Canada | 31 | 1:1,188,567 | 86,017 |
| Azerbaijan | 23 | 1:419,527 | 8,573 |
| Moldova | 21 | 1:169,589 | 17,028 |
| Argentina | 20 | 1:2,137,171 | 104,027 |
| Transnistria | 20 | 1:23,735 | 4,200 |
| Nigeria | 17 | 1:10,420,162 | 203,261 |
| Tajikistan | 16 | 1:524,168 | 3,647 |
| Czechia | 13 | 1:817,959 | 70,223 |
| Austria | 13 | 1:655,033 | 58,041 |
| Poland | 12 | 1:3,167,396 | 120,990 |
| Israel | 12 | 1:713,136 | 47,700 |
| Australia | 10 | 1:2,699,570 | 109,631 |
| Denmark | 6 | 1:940,786 | 47,603 |
| Armenia | 6 | 1:488,363 | 9,305 |
| Indonesia | 5 | 1:26,449,839 | 597,308 |
| Turkmenistan | 4 | 1:1,372,278 | 6,164 |
| Uzbekistan | 4 | 1:7,732,286 | 43,643 |
| Niger | 2 | 1:9,596,008 | 86,358 |
| Kyrgyzstan | 2 | 1:2,986,327 | 84,533 |
| England | 2 | 1:27,859,030 | 389,889 |
| Cameroon | 2 | 1:10,384,534 | 165,830 |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1:4,528,323 | 55,372 |
| Papua New Guinea | 1 | 1:8,153,717 | 181,784 |
| Romania | 1 | 1:20,077,870 | 89,414 |
| Hong Kong | 1 | 1:7,335,483 | 16,643 |
| Greece | 1 | 1:11,079,790 | 145,225 |
| Switzerland | 1 | 1:8,212,915 | 156,297 |
| Georgia | 1 | 1:3,745,545 | 47,852 |
| Croatia | 1 | 1:4,228,604 | 99,289 |
| China | 1 | 1:1,367,321,566 | 51,149 |
| Abkhazia | 1 | 1:242,865 | 5,354 |
| Northern Ireland | 1 | 1:1,845,036 | 20,648 |
| Place | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 1:12,554,671 | 503,821 |
The alternate forms: Kiška (192) are calculated separately.
Kiska (1,647) may also be a first name.
Kiska Demographics
Average Kiska Salary in
United States
$46,537 USD
Per year
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
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Kiska Last Name Facts
Where Does The Last Name Kiska Come From? nationality or country of origin
Kiska (Hindi: किस्का, Oriya: କି, Russian: Киска) has its highest incidence in Russia. It can also be rendered as: Kiška. For other potential spellings of this last name click here.
How Common Is The Last Name Kiska? popularity and diffusion
This surname is the 67,971st most widely held surname at a global level It is held by approximately 1 in 996,792 people. This surname is predominantly found in Europe, where 69 percent of Kiska are found; 68 percent are found in Eastern Europe and 65 percent are found in East Slavic Europe. It is also the 189,909th most commonly occurring forename at a global level It is held by 1,647 people.
The surname Kiska is most prevalent in Russia, where it is borne by 5,653 people, or 1 in 25,495. In Russia it is primarily concentrated in: Moscow, where 19 percent are found, Saint Petersburg, where 10 percent are found and Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, where 4 percent are found. Not including Russia this last name occurs in 41 countries. It is also found in Belarus, where 7 percent are found and The United States, where 5 percent are found.
Kiska Family Population Trend historical fluctuation
The incidence of Kiska has changed over time. In The United States the number of people who held the Kiska last name rose 8,950 percent between 1880 and 2014.
Kiska Last Name Statistics demography
The religious adherence of those bearing the Kiska surname is chiefly Orthodox (82%) in Russia, Orthodox (96%) in Belarus and Orthodox (70%) in Ukraine.
In The United States Kiska are 16.81% more likely to be registered United Russias than The US average, with 63.58% registered to vote for the political party.
The amount Kiska earn in different countries varies markedly. In United States they earn 7.85% more than the national average, earning $46,537 USD per year and in Canada they earn 50.1% more than the national average, earning $74,572 CAD per year.
Phonetically Similar Names
Kiska Name Transliterations
| Transliteration | ICU Latin | Percentage of Incidence |
|---|---|---|
| Kiska in the Hindi language | ||
| किस्का | kiska | - |
| Kiska in the Oriya language | ||
| କି | ki | - |
| Kiska in the Russian language | ||
| Киска | kiska | - |
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Footnotes
- Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
- Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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- Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
- Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
- Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Kiska
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