Boulgakov
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country · latest register: Familienaam.be, 2008
Boulgakov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Boulgakov is also written Булгаков in Cyrillic.
- BEBelgium1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 8.9Kas Булгаков
- UAUkraine≈1 in 14Kas Булгаков
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 Boulgakov 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 2.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 named Булгаков, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Boulgakov in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin
(measured from records)Locally spelled Булгаков in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more and Bulgakov in EE Estonia.
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 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Boulgakov is found
(measured from records)Boulgakov 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 8.9K | — | Булгаков | 151 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Булгаков | 39 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Булгаков | 4 |
| BY Belarus | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Булгаков | 20 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | 199as Булгаков | 1 in 96K | 755 | Булгаков | 32 |
| EE Estonia | ≈38 est. | ≈1 in 36K | listed | Bulgakov | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 5 | 1 in 2.3M | 5 | — | 3 |
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; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Sergei Bulgakovb. 1871RURussian Orthodox Christian theologian, philosopher, priest and economist (1871–1944)
- Mikhail Bulgakovb. 1891UARussian author (1891–1940)
- Dmitry Bulgakovb. 1954RURussian Army general, economist
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)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Boulgakov?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Булгаков in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Belarus and Kazakhstan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Boulgakov most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boulgakov is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 2.3 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Boulgakov?
- In Belgium, the national register counted 5 people named Boulgakov in 2008, about 1 in 2.3 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/boulgakovThe 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, “Boulgakov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.