Chernov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/tʃɝnɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Chernov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Чернов (Černov).
- RURussia≈1 in 2.3Kas Чернов(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 5.9Kas Чернов
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 19Kas Чернов
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 Chernov 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
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 33K (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 named Чернов, 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 Чернов 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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Russian Чернов (Černov).
Sources 1
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Chernov 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 | #170 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Чернов | 167 |
| UA Ukraine | #529 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Чернов | 48 |
| BY Belarus | #382 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.6K | — | Чернов | 21 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 969K | — | Чернов | 4 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈700 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Чернов | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 571 | 1 in 67K | 569 | Chernov | 22 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Чернов | 15 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 33K | listed | Chernov | 10 |
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)
- Dmitry Chernovb. 1839RURussian metallurgist (1839–1921)
- Viktor Chernovb. 1873RURussian politician (1873–1952)
- Mikhail Alexandrovich Chernovb. 1891RUSoviet politician (1891-1938)
- Herman Chernoffb. 1923USnot in their usual nameAmerican statistician
- Eitan Tchernovb. 1935ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli palaeontologist
- Alex Chernovb. 1938AUAustralian jurist, Supreme Court judge, Governor of Victoria
- Mstyslav Chernovb. 1985UAUkrainian photographer, reporter, photojournalist, videographer, filmmaker, war correspondent, and novelist
- Yevgeni Chernovb. 1992RURussian footballer
- Nikita Chernovb. 1996RURussian association football player
- Jeffrey ChernovUSAmerican film producer
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 18 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 569 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 569 | #5,581 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #316,872 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Chernov mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Russian Чернов (Černov). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Chernov?
- A machine transcription gives /tʃɝnɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Chernov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Чернов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Chernov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 571 people named Chernov in 2026, about 1 in 67 thousand residents.
- How common is Chernov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Chernov is the 170th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Chernov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/chernovThe 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, “Chernov” — the 170th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.