Cherkasov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Cherkasov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 5.9Kas Черкасов(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 12Kas Черкасов
- EEEstonia≈1 in 47K
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 Cherkasov 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
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 named Черкасов, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Черкасов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KG Kyrgyzstan and 3 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.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Cherkasov 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 | #626 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Черкасов | 159 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Черкасов | 35 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Черкасов | 16 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Черкасов | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 254 | 1 in 151K | 254 | Cherkasov | 10 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 49K | — | Черкасов | 12 |
| EE Estonia | #735 | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 47K | listed | Черкасов | 5 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Ivan Cherkasovb. 1692Russian statesman, privy councillor, and cabinet secretary
- Nikolay Cherkasovb. 1903RUSoviet actor (1903-1966)
- Gennady Cherkasovb. 1930RUpianist and conductor (b. 1930, d. 2002)
- Yevgeny Cherkasovb. 1930RUSoviet sport shooter
- Dmitriĭ Cherkasovb. 1965RUSoviet writer (1965-2003)
- Aleksandr Vladimirovič Čerkasovb. 1966RUnot in their usual nameRussian journalist, human rights activist (chair person of Memorial)
- Andrei Cherkasovb. 1970RURussian tennis player
- Dmitry Cherkasovb. 1973RURussian film director
- Alla Cherkasovab. 1989UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian wrestler
- Nicolai Cherkasovb. 1996RURussian bicycle racer
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 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 254 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 254 | #12,843 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Cherkasov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Черкасов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Cherkasov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 254 people named Cherkasov in 2026, about 1 in 151 thousand residents.
- How common is Cherkasov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Cherkasov is the 626th most common surname of 1,952,411 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/cherkasovThe 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, “Cherkasov” — the 626th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.