Merkulov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɝkuɫɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Merkulov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Меркулов (Merkulov).
- RURussia≈1 in 6.5Kas Меркулов(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 15Kas Меркулов
- EEEstonia≈1 in 28K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Merkulov itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 named Меркулов, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Меркулов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from Russian Меркулов (Merkulov).
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Merkulov 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #712 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Меркулов | 155 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Меркулов | 36 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Меркулов | 16 |
| CN China | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Меркулов | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 170 | 1 in 225K | 170 | Merkulov | 10 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 28K | listed | Merkulov | 9 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Меркулов | 11 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Vsevolod Merkulovb. 1895AZSoviet politician and intelligence officer, head of NKGB (1895-1953)
- Yuri Merkulovb. 1901RUSoviet artist, animator, director (1901-1979)
- Rostislav Merkulovb. 1912EEEstonian conductor and violinist (1912-1978)
- Vladimir Merkulovb. 1922RUsoviet fighter pilot during WW II
- Robert Merkulovb. 1931RUSoviet speed skater (1931–2022)
- Gennady Merkulovb. 1940RURussian politician
- Pavel Merkulovb. 1963RURussian politician
- Aleksei Merkulovb. 1981RURussian footballer
- Vladimir Merkulovb. 1989RURussian footballer
- Mikhail Merkulovb. 1994RUfootballer
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 170 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 170 | #18,779 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Merkulov mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Russian Меркулов (Merkulov). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Merkulov?
- A machine transcription gives /mɝkuɫɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Merkulov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Меркулов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Merkulov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 170 people named Merkulov in 2026, about 1 in 225 thousand residents.
- How common is Merkulov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Merkulov is the 712th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Merkulov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/merkulovThe 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, “Merkulov” — the 712th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.