Bykow
surname · Latin script
Bykow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 2.8Kas Быков(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 5.2Kas Быков
- UAUkraine≈1 in 8.1Kas Биков
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 Bykow 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
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈51,000 named Быков, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Быков
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Быков in RU Russia, BY Belarus, UZ Uzbekistan and 1 more, Биков in UA Ukraine, Bikov in BG Bulgaria and Bykov in PL Poland.
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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bykow 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 | #219 | ≈51,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.8K | — | Быков | 165 |
| UA Ukraine | #685 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 8.1K | — | Биков | 38 |
| BY Belarus | #288 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Быков | 22 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Быков | 8 |
| CN China | — | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 1.9M | — | Быков | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 359as Bykov | 1 in 107K | 359 | Bykov | 22 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Bikov | 40 |
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: 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)
Bykow 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 Latvian, Bikavas muiža, kas atradās Rēzeknes apriņķa Gaigalavas pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Konstantin Bykovb. 1886RURussian physiologist (1886–1959)
- Leonid Bykovb. 1928UAUkrainian soviet actor, film director and screenwriter (1928-1979)
- Rolan Bykovb. 1929RUSoviet and Russian actor, theater and film director, screenwriter (1929–1998)
- Yordan Bikovb. 1950BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian weightlifter
- Anatoly Bykovb. 1953RUOlympic wrestler
- Anatoly Bykovb. 1960RURussian businessman
- Vyacheslav Bykovb. 1960RUSoviet and Russian ice hockey player
- Dmitry Bykovb. 1967RURussian writer and journalist
- Yuri Bykovb. 1981RURussian film director and actor
- Sergei Bykovb. 1983RURussian basketball player (born 1983)
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 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #175,785 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4 | #216,153 |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- In which country does Bykow have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 51 thousand people named Быков in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Bykow?
- In Poland, the national register counted 359 people named Bykov in 2026, about 1 in 107 thousand residents.
- How common is Bykow compared with other names?
- In Russia, Bykow is the 219th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bykow?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bykowThe 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, “Bykow” — the 219th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.