surname halasha or halaska

[janice]

I am doing a family tree and my grandmother's name was Agrippina Halasha. When I do a people search sometimes it comes up Halaska.??????
Could people have changed their name when they came over from the ukraine?
Janice

[Hannia]

Hello Janice.

Many of these transliteration variants from Cyrillic were just plain clerical errors.

Halaska is actually a Czech surname, found in the Carpathian Mountains.

I ran the variant spelling (using Cyrillic ГАЛАСКА) and found no such surname in your villages of interest.