Suska

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Суська in UA Ukraine and Суска in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

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

• English surname2.0K records spelled Suska6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Australia

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Suská, Šuška

• Spanish surname137 records spelled Suska5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Spain

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Šuška, Suská, Suška

• Croatian surname43 records spelled Suska13 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Croatia

  Also written Šuška, Сушка, Suská, Suška, Суска

• a separate surname42 records spelled Suska4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States

  Also written Suška, Suská, Šuška

29 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●

Suska 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 Latvian, tumšs siens, kas pļauts vēlā rudenī virs ledus

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

• In Latvian, kaut kas bezformīgs, bezsaturīgs, izplūstošs

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

• In Latvian, lempis, neveiklis; kāds, kurš ir sasmērējies

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

• In Latvian, Plukata, nolaidies cilvēks

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

• In Latvian, Paklīdis cilvēks

  as a word·Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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●

• Katarzyna Suskab. 1960PLPolish operatic mezzo-soprano
• Dorota Suskab. 1965PLPolish linguist
• Dariusz Suskab. 1968PLPolish poet
• Shane Suskab. 1973AUAustralian canoeist
• Małgorzata Suska-MalawskaPLresearcher

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 38 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Suska?

We estimate roughly 4.1 thousand people bear Suska (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Suska have the most bearers?

We estimate about 3.9 thousand people bear Suska in Poland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled suska.

Where is Suska most common?

Suska is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 9.9 thousand people carrying it.

How common is Suska compared with other names?

In Poland, Suska is the 920th most common surname of 614,248 surnames recorded there.