Afanasjevs
surname · Latin script
Afanasjevs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 2.3Kas Афанасьев(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 8.6Kas Афанасьєв
- BYBelarus≈1 in 8.1Kas Афанасьев
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 Afanasjevs 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 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 named Афанасьев, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Афанасьев
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Афанасьев in RU Russia, CN China, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more, Афанасьєв in UA Ukraine, Afanasiev in PL Poland and Afanas'Ev in 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Afanasjevs 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 | #160 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Афанасьев | 173 |
| UA Ukraine | #644 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | — | Афанасьєв | 49 |
| BY Belarus | #505 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Афанасьев | 21 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Афанасьев | 5 |
| CN China | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Афанасьев | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 376as Afanasiev | 1 in 102K | 376 | Afanasiev | 8 |
| MD Moldova | #204 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Afanas'Ev | 9 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Афанасьев | 10 |
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Nikolay Afanas'yevb. 1820RUnot in their usual nameRussian violin virtuoso and composer (1820–1898)
- Alexander Afanasyevb. 1826RUnot in their usual nameRussian folklorist, collector of folk tales (1826-1871)
- Aleksey Afanas'evb. 1850RUnot in their usual nameRussian painter (1850-1920)
- Nikolay Mikhaylovich Afanasyevb. 1916RUnot in their usual nameRussian weapons designer (1916-2009)
- Sergey Afanasyevb. 1918RUnot in their usual nameengineer and minister of the Soviet Union (1918-2001)
- Viktor Afanasyevb. 1922RUnot in their usual nameRussian philosopher (1922–1994)
- Yuri Afanasievb. 1934RUSoviet and Russian politician and historian (1934-2015)
- Valery Afanassievb. 1947RUnot in their usual nameRussian pianist
- Viktor Afanasyevb. 1948RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian cosmonaut and military pilot
- Vahur Afanasjevb. 1979EEnot in their usual nameEstonian writer, filmmaker and musician (1979–2021)
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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #302,304 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- In which country does Afanasjevs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Афанасьев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Afanasjevs?
- In Poland, the national register counted 376 people named Afanasiev in 2026, about 1 in 102 thousand residents.
- How common is Afanasjevs compared with other names?
- In Russia, Afanasjevs is the 160th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/afanasjevsThe 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, “Afanasjevs” — the 160th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.