Asimov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Isaac, US author
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Asimov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kazakhstan than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 39Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 62Kfew records
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 140Kfew records
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 Asimov 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.
- Kazakhstan (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 128 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
1,113 named Азимов, 2021
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Азимов in KG Kyrgyzstan, KZ Kazakhstan, AZ Azerbaijan and 2 more and Азімов 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
(measured from records)Isaac, US author
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Asimov 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 1,113as Азимов | 1 in 17K | 1.1K | Азимов | 36 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 39K | — | Азимов | 23 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Азимов | 29 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 181K | — | Азімов | 17 |
| PL Poland | — | 198as Azimov | 1 in 193K | 196 | — | — |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Азимов | 12 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #512 | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 2.8M | — | Азимов | 14 |
1,113 people counted by 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence, 2021. 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 Kazakhs, 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Asimov 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 Croatian, američki književnik i biokemičar, izuzetno plodan i uspješan autor znanstvene fantastike (SF-literature); objavio o. 200 knjiga
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)- Gertrude Asimovb. 1917CAex-wife of author Isaac Asimov
- Isaac Asimovb. 1920USAmerican writer and biochemist (1920–1992)
- Muhammad Osimib. 1920TJnot in their usual nameTajik philosopher, soldier, poet, and academic
- Janet Asimovb. 1926USauthor, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst (1926–2019)
- Stanley Asimovb. 1929American journalist
- Nəriman Əzimovb. 1936AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani composer and conductor
- Yahyo Azimovb. 1947TJPrime Minister of Tajikistan
- Anvar Azimovb. 1950UZRussian diplomat
- Rustam Atsimovb. 1958UZnot in their usual namepolitician
- Khamzat Azimovb. 1997FRFrench terrorist of Chechen origin
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- 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 Asimov mean, and where does it come from?
- Isaac, US author Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- In which country does Asimov have the most bearers?
- In Kazakhstan, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Азимов, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Asimov?
- In Kazakhstan, the national register counted 1,113 people named Азимов in 2021, about 1 in 17 thousand residents.
- How common is Asimov compared with other names?
- In Kyrgyzstan, Asimov is the 512th most common surname of 238,334 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/asimovThe 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, “Asimov” — the 512th most common surname in Kyrgyzstan. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.