Zhekov
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries
Zhekov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country. Zhekov is also written Жеков in Cyrillic.
- ESSpain1 in 633K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 1.4M
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 4.4Mfew records
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 Zhekov 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,000 named Жеков, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Zhekov in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Жеков in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, MD Moldova.
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 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zhekov is found
(measured from records)Zhekov 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)- Nikola Zhekovb. 1865BGBulgarian general (1865-1949)
- Petar Zhekovb. 1944BGBulgarian footballer (1944–2023)
- Andrey Zhekovb. 1980BGBulgarian volleyball player
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zhekov?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.0 thousand people named Жеков in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Russia, Ukraine, Moldova and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zhekov?
- In Spain, the national register counted 79 people named Zhekov, about 1 in 633 thousand residents.
- How common is Zhekov compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Zhekov is the 182nd most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zhekov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zhekovThe 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, “Zhekov” — the 182nd most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.