Grigorov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: derived from a rare parallel form of Grigórij 'Gregory'
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Grigorov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 82nd most common surname.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 100K
- NONorway1 in 161K
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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 94 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Григоров 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(measured from records)
derived from a rare parallel form of Grigórij 'Gregory'
Sources 1
- Russian Surnames
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Grigorov 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 | #82 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Grigorov | 94 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 469K | — | Григоров | 36 |
| US United States | — | 172 | 1 in 1.9M | 172 | Grigorov | 57 |
| ES Spain | — | 100 | 1 in 500K | 100 | Grigorov | 15 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Grigorov | 1 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Grigorov | 9 |
| NO Norway | — | 34 | 1 in 161K | 34 | — | 5 |
| FI Finland | — | 22 | 1 in 253K | 22 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 100K | listed | — | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Stamen Grigorovb. 1878BGBulgarian physician and microbiologist (1878-1945)
- Naum Grigorovb. 1915MDSoviet physicist
- Hristo Grigorovb. 1944BGBulgarian public figure
- Aleksandar Grigorovb. 1980BGbadminton player
- Vyachaslaw Hryharawb. 1982BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian footballer
- Miroslav Grigorovb. 1982BGBulgarian footballer
- Grigor Grigorovb. 1987BGBulgarian chess player
- Chudomir Grigorovb. 1989BGBulgarian footballer
- Kirils Grigorovsb. 1992LVnot in their usual nameLatvian association football player
- Stefan Grigorowb. 1994BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian amateur wrestler
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 20 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 172 | #104,156 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 156 | #117,879 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 100 | #150,436 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 100 | #27,574 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 100 | #27,429 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 34 | #33,064 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 22 | #41,417 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Grigorov mean, and where does it come from?
- derived from a rare parallel form of Grigórij 'Gregory' Recorded by Russian Surnames.
- In which country does Grigorov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Grigorov in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled grigorov.
- How common is the name Grigorov?
- In the United States, the national register counted 172 people named Grigorov in 2010, about 1 in 1.9 million residents.
- How common is Grigorov compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Grigorov is the 82nd most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/grigorovThe 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, “Grigorov” — the 82nd most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.