Ivanov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ivanov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 4th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Ivan, der slaw.
- ESSpain1 in 13K(measured from records)
- CNChina≈1 in 264K
- BGBulgaria1 in 56as Иванов
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 Ivanov 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- #185 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 292 (measured from records)
- 1 in 497 (inferred from the name graph)
≈540,000 named Иванов, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Иванов in RU Russia, BY Belarus, CN China and Іванов in UA Ukraine.
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)
Patronym zu Ivan, der slaw. Form von Johannes. 422 Bearer in Dtld.
Sources 1
- Deutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ivanov 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 | #4 | ≈540,000 est. | ≈1 in 260 | — | Иванов | 245 |
| BG Bulgaria | #1 | 125,111as Иванов | 1 in 56 | 136K | Ivanov | 200 |
| UA Ukraine | #25 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Іванов | 95 |
| BY Belarus | #2 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 1 | Иванов | 48 |
| CN China | #689 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Иванов | 11 |
| ES Spain | — | 3,926 | 1 in 13K | 3.9K | Ivanov | 71 |
| EE Estonia | #27 | 2,472 | 1 in 497 | 2.5K | Ivanov | 60 |
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; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register). 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)
Ivanov is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
patronymic from the personal name Ivan.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Finnish, a Finnish transliteration of the Russian surname from Russian Иванов (Ivanov)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, A transliteration of the Bulgarian surname Иванов (Ivanov).
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)
- Alexander Andreyevich Ivanovb. 1806RURussian artist (1806-1858)
- Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanovb. 1859RURussian and Soviet composer, conductor , musicologist and music teacher (1859–1935)
- Vyacheslav Ivanovb. 1866ITRussian poet, playwright, theatre theorist, translator (1866–1949)
- Vyacheslav Ivanovb. 1929RUSoviet linguist (1929-2017)
- Valentin Ivanovb. 1934RUSoviet and Russian footballer and football coach (1934-2011)
- Igor Ivanovb. 1945RURussian diplomat
- Sergei Ivanovb. 1953RURussian senior official and politician (1953–2026)
- Gjorge Ivanovb. 1960MKPresident of (North) Macedonia
- Trifon Ivanovb. 1965BGBulgarian footballer (1965-2016)
- Vlad Ivanovb. 1969RORomanian actor
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 49 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common surnames | 2018 | 136K | #1 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 3.9K | #1,330 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 3.9K | #1,330 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 2.5K | #1 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 2.5K | #1 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 145 | #418 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 Ivanov mean?
- Recorded meaning: Patronym zu Ivan, der slaw.
- In which country does Ivanov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 545 thousand people named Иванов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ivanov most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ivanov is densest in Estonia — about 1 in 497 people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ivanov?
- In Spain, the national register counted 3,926 people named Ivanov, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Ivanov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ivanov is the 4th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ivanovThe 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, “Ivanov” — the 4th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.