Goncharov
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: gonchar potter, earlier gornchar (a deriv. of gorn pot). Gonfalonier! N Italian; occupational name for a stand¬ gain, barter (cf. Chapman). The mod. Eng. word cheap is a reduction of this phrase
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɡɑntʃɝɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goncharov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Belarus it is the 82nd most common surname.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 15K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 987K
- RURussia≈1 in 2.3Kas Гончаров
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 Goncharov 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
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈62,000 named Гончаров, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Гончаров in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 3 more and Goncearov in MD Moldova.
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)
gonchar potter, earlier gornchar (a deriv. of gorn pot). Gonfalonier! N Italian; occupational name for a stand¬ gain, barter (cf. Chapman). The mod. Eng. word cheap is a reduction of this phrase. Var.: Goodcheap. ard-bearer, either in a military context or as the officer of a
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Goncharov is read(measured from records)
Goncharov is one spelling over 2 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.
- Russian68%
gonchar potter, earlier gornchar (a deriv. of gorn pot). Gonfalonier! N Italian; occupational name for a stand¬ gain, barter (cf. Chapman). The mod. Eng. word cheap is a reduction of this phrase. Var.: Goodcheap. ard-bearer, either in a military context or as the officer of a
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
gonchar potter, earliergomchar (a deriv. olgom pot). Cogns.: Beloruss.: Horshalyov (patr.). Ukr.: Honchar (occupa¬ tional). Czech: Hrncir. Flung.: Gerencser.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- English10%
A surname from Russian, equivalent to English Potter
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ivan, Russian novelist
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
Goncharov 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 | #171 | ≈62,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Гончаров | 170 |
| UA Ukraine | #233 | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Гончаров | 59 |
| BY Belarus | #82 | ≈4,100 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | 5 | Гончаров | 25 |
| CN China | — | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 830K | — | Гончаров | 4 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Гончаров | 7 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Гончаров | 12 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Goncearov | 5 |
| US United States | — | 337 | 1 in 987K | 399 | Goncharov | 137 |
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: Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Ekaterina Nikolaevna Goncharovab. 1809RUnot in their usual name(1809-1843)
- Ivan Goncharovb. 1812RURussian novelist and official (1812–1891)
- Vasily Goncharovb. 1861RURussian film director and screenwriter (1861—1915)
- Andrey Goncharovb. 1918RUSoviet theatre director (1918-2001)
- German Goncharovb. 1928RUsoviet/Russian nuclear physicist, engineer and mathematician (1928-2009)
- Alexander Goncharovb. 1960USAmerican mathematician
- Ruslan Honcharovb. 1973UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian ice dancer
- Valeriy Honcharovb. 1977UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian gymnast
- Vasiliy Goncharovb. 1984RURussian musician
- Uladzislau Hancharoub. 1995BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian trampoline gymnast (born 1995)
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 19 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 399 | #55,517 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 337 | #59,901 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 200 | #86,657 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Goncharov mean, and where does it come from?
- gonchar potter, earlier gornchar (a deriv. of gorn pot). Gonfalonier! N Italian; occupational name for a stand¬ gain, barter (cf. Chapman). The mod. Eng. word cheap is a reduction of this phrase. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Goncharov?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɡɑntʃɝɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Goncharov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 62 thousand people named Гончаров in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Goncharov?
- In the United States, the national register counted 337 people named Goncharov in 2010, about 1 in 987 thousand residents.
- How common is Goncharov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Goncharov is the 171st 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/goncharovThe 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, “Goncharov” — the 171st most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.