Atanassova
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Atanassova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common surname.
- BGBulgaria1 in 182as Атанасова(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 230Kas Атанасова
- CACanada≈1 in 1.6M
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 Atanassova 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.
- Bulgaria (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6M (inferred from the name graph)
38,186 named Атанасова, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Atanasova in BG Bulgaria, MK North Macedonia, ES Spain and 2 more and Атанасова in RU Russia.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Atanassova 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #29 | 38,186as Атанасова | 1 in 182 | 38K | Atanasova | 141 |
| MK North Macedonia | #35 | 3,419as Атанасова | 1 in 622 | 3.4K | Atanasova | 19 |
| ES Spain | — | 691as Atanasova | 1 in 72K | 691 | Atanasova | 49 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 230K | — | Атанасова | 96 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 143K | — | Atanassova | 25 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 209as Atanasova | 1 in 40K | 209 | Atanasova | 8 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 106as Atanasova | 1 in 20K | 106 | Atanasova | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 82as Atanasova | 1 in 67K | 82 | — | 8 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Atanassova | 14 |
38,186 people counted by NSI — most common surnames (annual press release), 2022, counting the spelling атанасова. 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: NSI — most common surnames (annual press release); State Statistical Office — living population names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)
- Aneliya Atanasovab. 1949BGBulgarian politician (born 1949)
- Vasila Atanasovab. 1966BGBulgarian actor
- Vassia Atanassovab. 1982BGBulgarian Wikimedian
- Christina V. AtanasovaGBresearcher
- Dimitrinka AtanasovaGBresearcher
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 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28 | #66,671 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 28 | #65,950 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Atanassova have the most bearers?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted about 38 thousand people named Атанасова, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Atanassova?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted 38,186 people named Атанасова in 2022, about 1 in 182 residents.
- How common is Atanassova compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Atanassova is the 29th most common surname of 67,606 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/atanassovaThe 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, “Atanassova” — the 29th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.