Baryshnikov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Mikhail, ballet dancer
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɝˈɪʃnɪˌkɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Baryshnikov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 14Kas Барышников(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 79Kas Баришніков
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 89Kas Барышников
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 Baryshnikov 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
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 101K (inferred from the name graph)
≈10,000 named Барышников, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, 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 Барышников in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 2 more and Баришніков 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)
Mikhail, ballet dancer
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baryshnikov 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 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Барышников | 140 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Баришніков | 16 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 101K | — | Барышников | 3 |
| CN China | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Барышников | 2 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 89K | 381 | Барышников | 29 |
| BY Belarus | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 2 | Барышников | 11 |
| PL Poland | 51 | 1 in 751K | 51 | — | 2 |
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; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); 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)
- Aleksandr Baryshnikovb. 1877Russian engineer and architect (1877-1924)
- Stepan Baryshnikovb. 1893RUSoviet politician (1894-1943)
- Anatoli Jurjewitsch Baryschnikowb. 1944RUnot in their usual nameRussian scientist
- Gennady Baryshnikovb. 1945RURussian biologist
- Gennady Baryshnikovb. 1945RURussian geographer
- Mikhail Baryshnikovb. 1948LVLatvian-American dancer, choreographer and actor
- Aleksandr Baryshnikovb. 1948RUathletics competitor (1948–2024)
- Mikhail Baryshnikovb. 1957RURussian historian
- Yevhen Baryshnikovb. 1988UAUkrainian footballer
- Anna Baryshnikovb. 1992USAmerican actress
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)
Attested in 8 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 51 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 51 | #48,852 |
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 Baryshnikov mean, and where does it come from?
- Mikhail, ballet dancer Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Baryshnikov?
- A machine transcription gives /bɝˈɪʃnɪˌkɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Baryshnikov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 10 thousand people named Барышников in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Baryshnikov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 51 people named Baryshnikov in 2026, about 1 in 751 thousand 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/baryshnikovThe 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, “Baryshnikov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.