Prokofjew
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Prokofjew is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 6.4Kas Прокофьев(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 9.7Kfew recordsas Прокофьев
- UAUkraine≈1 in 26Kas Прокоф’єв
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 Prokofjew itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 160 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 named Прокофьев, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Прокофьев
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Прокофьев in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 more, Прокоф’єв in UA Ukraine and Prokof'Ev in MD Moldova.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Prokofjew 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 | #655 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Прокофьев | 160 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Прокоф’єв | 20 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈950 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Прокофьев | 21 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Прокофьев | 6 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 591 | Прокофьев | 33 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Prokof'Ev | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 127as Prokofiev | 1 in 301K | 127 | — | 3 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; 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)- Serge Prokofievb. 1891UARussian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor (1891–1953)
- Alexander Prokofyevb. 1900RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer (1900–1971)
- Oleg Prokofievb. 1928GBRussian artist (1928-1998)
- V. N. Prokofʹevb. 1928RUnot in their usual nameSoviet art historian (1928-1982)
- Sergei Prokofieffb. 1954RUnot in their usual nameSoviet artist (1954–2014)
- Andrey Prokofyevb. 1959RUnot in their usual nameathletics competitor (1959–1989)
- Gabriel Prokofievb. 1975GBEnglish composer
- Maryna Prokofyevab. 1982UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian judoka
- Stanislav Prokofyevb. 1987RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
- Ekaterina Prokofyevab. 1991RUnot in their usual nameRussian water polo 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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 5 | #207,228 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #234,944 |
Reference works 1
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
- In which country does Prokofjew have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Прокофьев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Prokofjew?
- In Poland, the national register counted 127 people named Prokofiev in 2026, about 1 in 301 thousand residents.
- How common is Prokofjew compared with other names?
- In Russia, Prokofjew is the 655th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/prokofjewThe 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, “Prokofjew” — the 655th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.