Ionov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ionov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 11Kas Ионов(inferred from the name graph)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 16Kas Yonov
- UAUkraine≈1 in 74Kas Іонов
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 Ionov 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
- 151 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 named Ионов, 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 Ионов in RU Russia, BY Belarus, UZ Uzbekistan, Іонов in UA Ukraine and Yonov in BG Bulgaria.
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 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ionov 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 | — | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ионов | 151 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Іонов | 26 |
| BG Bulgaria | #852 | ≈430 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Yonov | 37 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Ионов | 3 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 48K | — | Ионов | 15 |
| PL Poland | — | 69 | 1 in 555K | 69 | Ionov | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 47K | listed | Ionov | 8 |
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)
- Maria Feodorovab. 1859FInot in their usual nameRussian painter and iconographer (1859-1934)
- Ilia Ionovb. 1887UARussian writer, journalist and poet (1887-1942)
- Anatoly Ionovb. 1939RURussian ice hockey player (1939–2019)
- Vyacheslav Ionovb. 1940RUSoviet canoeist (1940–2012)
- Maksim Ionovb. 1976RURussian footballer (born 1976)
- Mariya Ionovab. 1978UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian politician
- Konstantin Ionovb. 1983RURussian footballer
- Ilya Ionovb. 1985RURussian footballer
- Glukozab. 1986RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer
- Aleksei Ionovb. 1989RURussian footballer
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 69 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 69 | #39,330 |
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
- In which country does Ionov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Ионов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ionov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 69 people named Ionov in 2026, about 1 in 555 thousand residents.
- How common is Ionov compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Ionov is the 852nd most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ionov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ionovThe 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, “Ionov” — the 852nd most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.