Gorbaçov
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gorbaçov is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 5.8Kas Горбачев(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 6.7Kas Gorbachev
- UAUkraine≈1 in 13Kas Горбачов
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 Gorbaçov 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
- 153 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.4M (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 named Горбачев, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Горбачев in RU Russia, BY Belarus, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more, Горбачов in UA Ukraine and Горбачёв in TW Taiwan.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gorbaçov 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 | #457 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.8K | — | Горбачев | 153 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Горбачов | 37 |
| BY Belarus | #279 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | 1 | Горбачев | 17 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Горбачев | 5 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 60K | — | Горбачёв | 1 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Горбачев | 9 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
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); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- Boris Gorbachyovb. 1892BYnot in their usual name19 Aug 1892 - certain 3 Jul 1937
- Mark Gorbachyovb. 1902RUnot in their usual name23 Mar 1902 - certain 16 Feb 1964
- Ivan Gorbachyovb. 1902RUnot in their usual nameSoviet military personnel (1902-1941)
- Igor Gorbachyovb. 1927RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actor (1927–2003)
- Mikhail Gorbachevb. 1931RUleader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
- Nikolai Gorbachevb. 1948BYCanoe racer (1948–2019)
- Vladimir Gorbachyovb. 1950RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Aleksandr Gorbachyovb. 1970RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer (born 1970)
- Mihail Harbachowb. 1983BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian footballer
- Aleksandr Gorbachevb. 1984RURussian journalist
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 1 sources across 0 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Gorbaçov a male or female name?
- Gorbaçov is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Gorbaçov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Горбачев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Gorbaçov most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Gorbaçov is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 5.4 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Gorbaçov?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2 people named Gorbaçov, about 1 in 5.4 million residents.
- How common is Gorbaçov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Gorbaçov is the 457th 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/gorba%C3%A7ovThe 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, “Gorbaçov” — the 457th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.