Chirkin

surname · Latin script

Chirkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 47Kas Чиркин(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 181Kas Чиркін
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 117K

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 Chirkin 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)

≈3,000 named Чиркин, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
123 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ChirkinLatin(measured from records)
ЧиркинCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Чиркин in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more and Чиркін in UA Ukraine.

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 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Chirkin 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.

Where Chirkin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia≈3,000 est.≈1 in 47K—Чиркин123
UA Ukraine≈240 est.≈1 in 181K—Чиркін17
KZ Kazakhstan≈130 est.≈1 in 146K204Чиркин27
KG Kyrgyzstan≈33 est.≈1 in 182K—Чиркин9
BY Belarus≈27 est.≈1 in 355K—Чиркин11
EE Estonia≈11 est.≈1 in 117KlistedЧиркин6
PL Poland61 in 6.4M6——

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; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Chirkin is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Bulgarian surname21 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Bulgaria, Russia

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written Čirkin, Чиркин, Ćirkin, Cirkin, Çirkin

19 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Nikolai Lavrov, b. 1802Sergey Chirkin, b. 1875Vladimir Chirkin, b. 1955

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 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Chirkin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20266—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—6#176,079

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Chirkin have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.0 thousand people named Чиркин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Chirkin?
In Poland, the national register counted 6 people named Chirkin in 2026, about 1 in 6.4 million residents.

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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, “Chirkin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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