Dimitrov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dimitrov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: from the baptismal name Dimitr-; stress shifted from the original form.
- ESSpain1 in 23K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 45K
- BGBulgaria1 in 74as Димитров
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 Dimitrov 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 221 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.1K (inferred from the name graph)
94,031 named Димитров, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Димитров in RU Russia, FI Finland, 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(measured from records)
from the baptismal name Dimitr-; stress shifted from the original form
Sources 1
- Russian Surnames
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dimitrov 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 | #3 | 94,031as Димитров | 1 in 74 | 101K | Dimitrov | 196 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Димитров | 118 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,173 | 1 in 23K | 2.2K | Dimitrov | 70 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 45K | — | Dimitrov | 111 |
| RS Serbia | #456 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.1K | listed | Dimitrov | 29 |
| MD Moldova | #91 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Димитров | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 342 | 1 in 16K | 342 | Димитров | 6 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 125 | 1 in 17K | 125 | — | 4 |
94,031 people counted by NSI — most common surnames (annual press release), 2022, counting the spelling димитров. 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); NSI — most common surnames; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Georgi Dimitrovb. 1882BGBulgarian politician (1882–1949)
- Bogdan Filovb. 1883BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian politician and archaeologist (1883-1945)
- Vladimir Stoychevb. 1892BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian Army officer (1892–1990)
- Peter Gabrovskib. 1898BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian politician (1898-1945)
- Emil Dimitrovb. 1940BGBulgarian singer, musician and composer (1940-2005)
- Bozhidar Dimitrovb. 1945BGBulgarian historian and politician (1945–2018)
- Philip Dimitrovb. 1955BGBulgarian politician
- Stoyan Ganevb. 1955BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian diplomat (1955-2013)
- Nikola Dimitrovb. 1972MKMacedonian diplomat and politician
- Grigor Dimitrovb. 1991BGBulgarian tennis 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 37 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common surnames | 2018 | 101K | #3 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.2K | #2,256 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.2K | #2,256 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 342 | #4,797 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 125 | #3,604 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Dimitrov mean, and where does it come from?
- from the baptismal name Dimitr-; stress shifted from the original form Recorded by Russian Surnames.
- In which country does Dimitrov have the most bearers?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted about 94 thousand people named Димитров, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Dimitrov?
- In Spain, the national register counted 2,173 people named Dimitrov, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Dimitrov compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Dimitrov is the 3rd 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/dimitrovThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Dimitrov” — the 3rd most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.