Trifonow
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Trifonow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Bulgaria it is the 94th most common surname. Trifonow is also written Трифонов in Cyrillic.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 1.6Kas Trifonov(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 6Kas Трифонов
- BYBelarus≈1 in 10Kfew recordsas Трифонов
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 Trifonow itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 named Трифонов, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est., as Trifonov
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Trifonow in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Трифонов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 1 more and Trifonov in BG Bulgaria, US United States.
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 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Trifonow is found
(measured from records)Trifonow 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 | #636 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Трифонов | 153 |
| BG Bulgaria | #94 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Trifonov | 97 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Трифонов | 4 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Трифонов | 29 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈870 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Трифонов | 15 |
| US United States | — | 141as Trifonov | 1 in 2.4M | 157 | Trifonov | 77 |
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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)- Edward Trifonovb. 1937RUMolecular biophysicist
- Filip Trifonovb. 1947BGBulgarian actor (1947-2021)
- Slavi Trifonovb. 1966BGBulgarian musician and 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Trifonow?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Трифонов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bulgaria, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Belarus; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Trifonow?
- In the United States, the national register counted 141 people named Trifonov in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
- How common is Trifonow compared with other names?
- In Russia, Trifonow is the 636th most common surname of 1,952,411 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/trifonowThe 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, “Trifonow” — the 636th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.