Bivol
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Croatian: buffalo
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/bivol/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bivol is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Moldova than in any other country, where it is the 49th most common surname.
- MDMoldova≈1 in 2.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- RORomania≈1 in 36K
- HRCroatia1 in 51K
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.
- Moldova (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 71 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova, est.
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(measured from records)
buffalo
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bivol is read(measured from records)
Bivol is one spelling over 5 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Romanian22%
BÍVOL, bivoli, s. m. Vită cornută, rumegătoare, asemănătoare cu boul, cu păr negru sau alb, aspru și rar, cu coarnele inelate întoarse spre spate (Bos bubalus). ♦ Epitet dat unui om gras, mătăhălos, nesimțit.
as a wordDEX online (dexonline.ro) - DEX '96 / DEX '98 definitions with etymology
- French19%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bivol in French.
- English14%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bivol in English.
- Croatian12%
buffalo
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Ukrainian8.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bivol in Ukrainian.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bivol 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD Moldova | #49 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Bivol | 27 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Bivol | 37 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 251K | — | Bivol | 12 |
| FR France | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 673K | — | Bivol | 71 |
| ES Spain | — | 86 | 1 in 582K | 86 | Bivol | 7 |
| HR Croatia | — | 83 | 1 in 51K | 83 | Bivol | 16 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 222K | — | Bivol | 8 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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)
- Nicolae Bivolb. 1882ROMoldovan politician (1882-1950s)
- Constantin Bivolb. 1885ROMoldovan politician
- Victor Bivolb. 1977MDMoldovan judoka
- Alina Bivolb. 1996RUSerbian chess 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)
Attested in 13 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 86 | #30,790 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 86 | #30,530 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 83 | #9,200 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 72 | — |
Reference works 3
- 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 Bivol mean, and where does it come from?
- buffalo Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Bivol?
- A machine transcription gives /bivol/ (IPA) for Romanian.
- In which country does Bivol have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Bivol in Moldova, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bivol.
- How common is the name Bivol?
- In Spain, the national register counted 86 people named Bivol, about 1 in 582 thousand residents.
- How common is Bivol compared with other names?
- In Moldova, Bivol is the 49th most common surname of 6,301 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bivolThe 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, “Bivol” — the 49th most common surname in Moldova. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.