Karpov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anatoly, Russian chess master
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈkɑɹˌpɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karpov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 2.3Kas Карпов(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 7.2Kas Карпов
- EEEstonia≈1 in 12K
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 Karpov 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 173 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 named Карпов, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Карпов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 2 more.
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)
Anatoly, Russian chess master
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karpov 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 | #161 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | listed | Карпов | 173 |
| UA Ukraine | #635 | ≈6,100 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Карпов | 49 |
| BY Belarus | #295 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Карпов | 22 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Карпов | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 438 | 1 in 87K | 435 | Karpov | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 258 | 1 in 22K | 258 | Карпов | 9 |
| EE Estonia | #672 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 217 | Karpov | 12 |
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: the russian-surnames-unbegaun-1972 register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed 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)
Karpov is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, A transliteration of the Russian surname Ка́рпов (Kárpov)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, ruski šahist, 1975. pobijedio Bobbyja Fishera i držao titulu svjetskog prvaka do 1985. kada je izgubio od G. Kasparova, v.
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
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)
- Lev Karpovb. 1879UARussian revolutionary (1879–1921)
- Aleksandr Karpovb. 1917RUSoviet aviator (1917–1944)
- Vladimir Karpovb. 1922RURussian-Soviet writer and soldier
- Aleksandr Karpovb. 1922BYSoviet film director (1922-1998)
- Sergey Karpovb. 1948RURussian byzantinist
- Anatoly Karpovb. 1951RURussian chess player
- Alexey Karpovb. 1960RURussian historian, social scientist and culturologist
- Aleksandr Karpovb. 1964RURussian actor, screenwriter and film producer
- Dmitriy Karpovb. 1981KZKazakhstani decathlete
- Harloeb. 1992USnot in their usual namesinger
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 29 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 435 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 435 | #7,445 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 258 | #6,057 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 217 | #254 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 59 | — |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 20 | #5,647 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3 | #266,071 |
| RU Russia | Russian Surnames (Unbegaun, 1972) | — | — | — |
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 Karpov mean, and where does it come from?
- Anatoly, Russian chess master Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Karpov?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈkɑɹˌpɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Karpov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Карпов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Karpov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 438 people named Karpov in 2026, about 1 in 87 thousand residents.
- How common is Karpov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Karpov is the 161st 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/karpovThe 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, “Karpov” — the 161st most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.