Plamen
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Plamen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 11th most common given name.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 199K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 671K
- BGBulgaria1 in 173as Пламен
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 Plamen 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
- 172 (measured from records)
- 1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
40,380 named Пламен, 2018
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Plamen 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 | #11 | 40,380as Пламен | 1 in 173 | 40K | Plamen | 164 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈540 est. | ≈1 in 150K | 1 | Plamen | 77 |
| ES Spain | — | 497 | 1 in 101K | 519 | Plamen | 51 |
| US United States | — | 496 | 1 in 671K | 494 | Plamen | 172 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 199K | listed | Plamen | 78 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 110K | listed | Plamen | 13 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 4 | Plamen | 19 |
| IS Iceland | — | 6 | 1 in 58K | 6 | — | — |
40,380 people counted by NSI — most common given names (population), 2018, counting the spelling пламен. 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 given names (population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); the babynamen-king-2020 register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Plamen 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.
In Slovenian, flame (visible part of fire)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, flame (part of fire)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, flame, blaze, fire
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)
- Plamen Donchevb. 1938BGBulgarian actor
- Plamen Maslarovb. 1950BGBulgarian director (1950–2010)
- Plamen Dimovb. 1955FIBulgarian musician
- Plamen Oresharskib. 1960BG52nd Prime Minister of Bulgaria
- Plamen Yurukovb. 1964BGBulgarian businessperson and entrepreneur
- Plamen Kralevb. 1973BGBulgarian racing driver
- Plamen Krachunovb. 1989BGBulgarian footballer
- Plamen Ilievb. 1991BGBulgarian association football player, born 1991
- Plamen Ilievb. 1994BGBulgarian association football player
- Plamen Penevb. 1994BGBulgarian footballer
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 26 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2016 | 41K | #16 |
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2018 | 40K | #16 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 519 | #2,052 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 497 | #4,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 494 | #20,724 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2018 | 4 | #1,764 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2 | #20,724 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2018 | 1 | #3,177 |
| DE Germany | Stadt Düsseldorf Open Data — Vornamen Neugeborene | 2014 | 1 | — |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2016 | 1 | #3,204 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2012 | 1 | #2,754 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Plamen a male or female name?
- Plamen is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Plamen have the most bearers?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted about 40 thousand people named Пламен, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Plamen most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Plamen is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 58 thousand people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Plamen?
- In Spain, the national register counted 497 people named Plamen, about 1 in 101 thousand residents.
- How common is Plamen compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Plamen is the 11th most common given name of 22,906 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Plamen?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/plamenThe 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, “Plamen” — the 11th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.