Flask
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Flask is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- MTMalta≈1 in 55K
- ITItaly≈1 in 254K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 129 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈250 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Malta, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Flask 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 254K | — | Flask | 2 |
| US United States | 227 | 1 in 1.5M | 227 | Flask | 129 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈28 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | — | Flask | 12 |
| AU Australia | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 940K | — | Flask | 26 |
| IN India | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 60M | — | Flask | 2 |
| AT Austria | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Flask | 1 |
| MT Malta | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Flask | 4 |
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. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Flask is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, A small barrel for beer storage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Danish, imperative of flaske
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In ofs, flesh
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, flasque
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Jade Flaskb. 1996MTMaltese association football player
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 5 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 227 | #82,908 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 211 | #93,282 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 196 | #88,083 |
| US United States | wru 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 Flask mean, and where does it come from?
- A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Flask?
- In the etymology graph, Frasco, Фляга and Flasche are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Flask have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 246 people named Flask in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled flask.
- How common is the name Flask?
- In the United States, the national register counted 227 people named Flask in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/flaskThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Flask”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.