Agapov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Agapios, a deriv. of agape spiritual love) (A dictionary of surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ɐɡapəf/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from агапов · uncertain
Agapov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Agapov is also written Агапов in Cyrillic.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 100K(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 110Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 1.7M
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 Agapov 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 21K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 named Агапов, 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
Agapov in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Агапов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, UZ Uzbekistan and 1 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.
How to pronounce Agapov
- Russian:/ɐɡapəf/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Agapios, a deriv. of agape spiritual love). This name was borne by various early saints, most notably one martyred at Caesarea in Palestine in ad 306. Vars.: Agapyev, Agapeev; Gapeev. O Ahern 5 Q
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Agapov is found
(measured from records)Agapov 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 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.7K | — | Агапов | 151 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Агапов | 4 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Агапов | 27 |
| BY Belarus | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Агапов | 15 |
| MD Moldova | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Agapov | 4 |
| US United States | 100 | 1 in 3.3M | 111 | Agapov | 76 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)- Boris Agapovb. 1899GESoviet writer, poet and screenwriter (1899-1973)
- Ivan Agapovb. 1965RUSoviet and Russian actor
- Maksim Agapovb. 1988KGKyrgyz footballer
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)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Agapov come from?
- Agapios, a deriv. of agape spiritual love). This name was borne by various early saints, most notably one martyred at Caesarea in Palestine in ad 306. Vars.: Agapyev, Agapeev; Gapeev. O Ahern 5 Q Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Agapov?
- In Russian /ɐɡapəf/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Agapov mean?
- Recorded meaning: Agapios, a deriv. of agape spiritual love).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Agapov?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Агапов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Agapov?
- In the United States, the national register counted 100 people named Agapov in 2010, about 1 in 3.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/agapovThe 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, “Agapov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.