Iotova
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Iotova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 860Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 2.6M
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 3.9Kas Yotova
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 Iotova 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 59 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 860K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,800 named Yotova, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ukraine, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Yotova in BG Bulgaria, ES Spain, IT Italy and Йотова in RU Russia.
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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Iotova 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.
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)- Violeta Iotovab. 1963BGProfessor, Dept.of Pediatrics, Medical University of Varna
- Илияна Йотоваb. 1964BGPresident of Bulgaria since 2026, vice-president of Bulgaria from 2017 to 2026, politician and journalist
- Nona Yotovab. 1966BGBulgarian actress
- Darab. 1998BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian singer-songwriter (born 1998)
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)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #105,814 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Iotova have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.8 thousand people named Yotova in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Iotova?
- In Poland, the national register counted 15 people named Iotova in 2026, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
- How common is Iotova compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Iotova is the 368th most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Iotova?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/iotovaThe 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, “Iotova” — the 368th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.