Aristarkh
given name · Latin script
Meaning: "better leader"
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Aristarkh is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 141Kas Аристарх(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 2.9M
- BYBelarus≈1 in 123Kas Аристарх
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 Aristarkh 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
- 120 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9M (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,000 named Аристарх, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Аристарх in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan 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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
"better leader."
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aristarkh 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 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 141K | #906 | Аристарх | 120 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 513K | — | Аристарх | 16 |
| BY Belarus | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Аристарх | 3 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 250K | 134 | Аристарх | 24 |
| PL Poland | 13 | 1 in 2.9M | 13 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | listed | — | 2 |
| IS Iceland | 1as Aristarh | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
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-names-pereverzeva-2011 register; Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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)
Aristarkh is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, de aristos, le meilleur et arkhein, commander. Fêtes : 4 (17) janvier, 15 (28) avril, 27 septembre (10 octobre). Aristarque est son équivalent français. Fête : 4 août.
as a nameRussian Names
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)
- Aristarkh Belopolskyb. 1854RURussian astronomer (1854-1934)
- Aristarkh Lentulovb. 1882RURussian artist (1882-1943)
- Aristarkh Krapivinb. 1909RUpolitician (1909–1992)
- Aristarkhb. 1941BYBelarusian bishop (1941–2012)
- Aristarkh Livanovb. 1947RUSoviet and Russian actor
- Aristarkh Venesb. 1989RURussian actor
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 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 13 | #8,588 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #8,902 |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| RU Russia | Russian Names (Pereverzeva, 2011) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Aristarkh mean, and where does it come from?
- "better leader." Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- Is Aristarkh a male or female name?
- Aristarkh is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Aristarkh have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.0 thousand people named Аристарх in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Aristarkh most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aristarkh is densest in Poland — about 1 in 2.9 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Aristarkh?
- In Poland, the national register counted 13 people named Aristarkh in 2026, about 1 in 2.9 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aristarkhThe 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, “Aristarkh”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.