Demin
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: Kostia Demin, clerk. 1511
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dimɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Demin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 5Kas Демин(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 16Kas Дьомін
- BYBelarus≈1 in 23K
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 Demin 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
- 157 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈28,000 named Демин, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belarus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Демин in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan, BY Belarus and 2 more and Дьомін 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(measured from records)
Kostia Demin, clerk. 1511.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
How Demin is read(measured from records)
Demin is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Russian53%
Kostia Demin, clerk. 1511.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
- English13%
Demineralized water.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish7.7%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Demin in Spanish.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Demin 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 | #309 | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | listed | Демин | 157 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Дьомін | 28 |
| CN China | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Демин | 5 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈500 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Демин | 3 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Демин | 14 |
| US United States | — | 129 | 1 in 2.6M | 129 | Demin | 64 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 94K | — | Демин | 9 |
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: the russian-surnames-unbegaun-1972 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
Demin 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 Turkish, just now; immediately
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In sga, sure, certain
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)
- Nikolai Deminb. 1842EEEstonian lawyer and local politician (1842-1903)
- Aleksandr Dyominb. 1921RUnot in their usual nameHero of the Soviet Union (1921-1944)
- Mikhail Deminb. 1926FRSoviet writer (1926–1984)
- Vladimir Deminb. 1948RUbadminton player
- Olga Yegorovab. 1955RUnot in their usual nameRussian judge
- Felix Deminb. 1991IDEntrepreneur
- Yaroslav Deminb. 2005RURussian tennis player
- Egor Deminb. 2006RURussian basketball player (born 2006)
- Pavel Deminresearcher in particle physics
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 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 129 | #131,379 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 127 | #136,807 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 101 | #149,328 |
| RU Russia | Russian Surnames (Unbegaun, 1972) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Demin mean, and where does it come from?
- Kostia Demin, clerk. 1511. Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- How do you pronounce Demin?
- A machine transcription gives /dimɪn/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Demin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 28 thousand people named Демин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Demin?
- In the United States, the national register counted 129 people named Demin in 2010, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Demin compared with other names?
- In Russia, Demin is the 309th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Demin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/deminThe 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, “Demin” — the 309th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.