Piroska
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Piroska is a given name, with more bearers in Hungary than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: piros (“red”) + -ka (diminutive suffix).
- HUHungary1 in 303◐
- USUnited States1 in 2.1M
- SKSlovakia1 in 31K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈33K ●
- Sources
- 102 ●
- 1 in 303 ◐
across 11 countries
6.2K records
Official registry-verified
Hungary
Meaning & origin●
piros (“red”) + -ka (diminutive suffix)
Sources 2
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | #68 | 32,201△ | 2.3K rec. | 1 in 303 | 32K | Piroska | 102 |
| DE Germany | — | 414 | 412 rec. | — | — | Piroska | 53 |
| RO Romania | — | 298 | 109 rec. | — | — | Piroska | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 195 | 246 rec. | — | — | Piroska | 28 |
| CL Chile | — | 188 | 10 rec. | — | 1 | Piroska | 16 |
| US United States | — | 159 | 2K rec. | 1 in 2.1M | 159 | Piroska | 70 |
| AT Austria | — | 149 | 108 rec. | — | 5 | Piroska | 24 |
| AU Australia | — | 138 | 146 rec. | — | 1 | Piroska | 32 |
| SE Sweden | — | 137△ | 23 rec. | 1 in 74K | 137 | Piroska | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | 96 | 95 rec. | — | — | Piroska | 22 |
| AR Argentina | — | 84 | 79 rec. | — | — | Piroska | 11 |
| SK Slovakia | — | 80 | 12 rec. | — | — | Piroska | 16 |
Roughly 32K people in Hungary bear this name (about 1 in 303). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Hungarian461K99%
- English3.3K1%
- Spanish6761%
- German6211%
- Czech2601%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 461,014 | 99% |
| English | 3,337 | 1% |
| Spanish | 676 | 1% |
| German | 621 | 1% |
| Czech | 260 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 100 |
| 2000 | 99 |
| 2001 | 98 |
| 2002 | 98 |
| 2003 | 97 |
| 2004 | 95 |
| 2005 | 94 |
| 2006 | 92 |
| 2007 | 93 |
| 2008 | 91 |
| 2009 | 92 |
| 2010 | 98 |
| 2011 | 95 |
| 2012 | 93 |
| 2013 | 95 |
| 2014 | 90 |
| 2015 | 88 |
| 2016 | 89 |
| 2017 | 89 |
| 2018 | 90 |
| 2019 | 88 |
| 2020 | 84 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 31 sources across 19 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 2026-09-12 data build · 98 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Piroska?
- We estimate roughly 33 thousand people bear Piroska (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Piroska have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 32 thousand people bear Piroska in Hungary, more than in any other country in our records, 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 Piroska compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Piroska is the 68th most common given name of 18,750 given names recorded there.
- 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.
- What does the name Piroska mean?
- Recorded meaning: piros (“red”) + -ka (diminutive suffix)
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
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.
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Cite this page Mondonomo, “Piroska” — the 68th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.