Gorbacev
surname · Latin script
Gorbacev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Горбачёв (Gorbačóv).
- CZCzechia1 in 11M(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 3Mfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0M (inferred from the name graph)
≈28 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Borrowed from Russian Горбачёв (Gorbačóv).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Gorbacev is found
(measured from records)Gorbacev 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.
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: MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Gorbacev is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, A transliteration of the Russian surname Горбачёв (Gorbačóv)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Boris Gorbachyovb. 1892BYnot in their usual name19 Aug 1892 - certain 3 Jul 1937
- Mikhail Gorbachevb. 1931RUnot in their usual nameleader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
- Nikolai Gorbachevb. 1948BYnot in their usual nameCanoe racer (1948–2019)
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gorbacev mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Russian Горбачёв (Gorbačóv). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Gorbacev?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 people named Gorbacev in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled gorbacev. After it come Czechia; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Gorbacev?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 1 people named Gorbacev, about 1 in 11 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gorbacevThe 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, “Gorbacev”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.