Bukov
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈbukəf/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from буков
Bukov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Bukov is also written Буков in Cyrillic.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 36Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 1.5M
- RURussia≈1 in 93Kas Буков
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 Bukov 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
- 115 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 36K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 named Буков, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Bukov in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Буков 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.
How to pronounce Bukov
- Russian:/ˈbukəf/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Bukov is found
(measured from records)Bukov 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 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Буков | 115 |
| BG Bulgaria | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Bukov | 27 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 267K | — | Буков | 11 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 370K | 83 | Буков | 24 |
| US United States | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 10M | listed | Bukov | 16 |
| PL Poland | 25 | 1 in 1.5M | 15 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 204K | listed | Буков | 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 Russians, by region of residence; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; 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)Bukov is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovak, genitive plural of buk
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Serbo-Croatian, beech
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)- Emilian Bukovb. 1909UASoviet writer (1909-1984)
- Yuri Boukoffb. 1923BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian pianist (1923-2006)
- Iana Boukovab. 1968BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian poet, novelist, playwright and literary translator
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Bukov?
- In Russian /ˈbukəf/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Bukov?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Буков in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Bulgaria, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Bukov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 25 people named Bukov in 2026, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Bukov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bukovThe 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, “Bukov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.