Afonin
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Afonin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 7.6Kas Афонин(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 25Kas Афонін
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 51Kas Афонин
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 Afonin 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
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 41K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 named Афонин, 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 Афонин in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 more and Афонін in UA Ukraine.
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 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Afonin 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 | #784 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Афонин | 158 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Афонін | 29 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 51K | 590 | Афонин | 34 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Афонин | 3 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Афонин | 12 |
| PL Poland | — | 147 | 1 in 260K | 131 | Afonin | 8 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 41K | listed | Afonin | 9 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; 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)
- Matvej Ivanovitj Afoninb. 1739RURussian botanist, student of Linnaeus (1739- 1810)
- Ivan Afoninb. 1904RUSoviet military personnel (1904-1979)
- Leonid Afoninb. 1918RUSoviet writer and theatre critic (1918-1975)
- Vasily Afoninb. 1919RUPilot (1919–1996)
- Nikolay Afoninb. 1936RURussian rector (1936-2008)
- Valentin Afoninb. 1939RURussian footballer (1939–2021)
- Vasily Afoninb. 1939RURussian author
- Yury Afoninb. 1977RUFirst Deputy Chairman of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation
- Vyacheslav Afoninb. 1978RURussian association football player
- Vadim Afoninb. 1987UZfootballer
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 13 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 131 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 131 | #23,545 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 16 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 16 | #100,766 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Afonin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Афонин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Afonin?
- In Poland, the national register counted 147 people named Afonin in 2026, about 1 in 260 thousand residents.
- How common is Afonin compared with other names?
- In Russia, Afonin is the 784th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Afonin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/afoninThe 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, “Afonin” — the 784th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.