Iwanow

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Iwanow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. In Polish, recorded as A transliteration of the Russian surname Ивано́в (Ivanóv): Ivanov.

rarermore common
  • TMTurkmenistan≈1 in 14K(inferred from the name graph)
  • PLPoland1 in 47K
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 67K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

820 people, 2026

Sources
48 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)

Turkmenistan, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

A transliteration of the Russian surname Ивано́в (Ivanóv): Ivanov

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.

How Iwanow is read(measured from records)

Iwanow is one spelling over 5 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.

  • English32%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Iwanow in English.

  • German21%

    Patronym zu Iwan, der slaw. Form von Johannes; daneben auch Herkunftsname möglich. 218 Bearer in Dtld.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen

  • Polish13%

    A transliteration of the Russian surname Ивано́в (Ivanóv): Ivanov

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Spanish11%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Iwanow in Spanish.

  • Turkmen5.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Iwanow in Turkmen.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Iwanow 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.

Where Iwanow is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland8201 in 47K445Iwanow48
TM Turkmenistan≈380 est.≈1 in 14K—Iwanow2
BG Bulgaria≈100 est.≈1 in 67K—Iwanow18
US United States1011 in 3.3M117Iwanow33
BR Brazil571 in 3.7M57——
FI Finland301 in 186K30——
SE Sweden151 in 680K15——

820 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Iwanow is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Russian surname128 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian

    Also written Иванов, Іванов, Ivanov, Іванів, Ivaniv

  • Spanish surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Brazil, United States, Venezuela

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Iwanów

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium

    Also written Iwanów

  • Danish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Denmark, Sweden

    Languages: Danish, Swedish

    Also written Iwanów

25 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov, b. 1806Lev Ivanov, b. 1834Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, b. 1859Vyacheslav Ivanov, b. 1866Vyacheslav Ivanov, b. 1929Valentin Ivanov, b. 1934Igor Ivanov, b. 1945Sergei Ivanov, b. 1953Gjorge Ivanov, b. 1960Trifon Ivanov, b. 1965
  • Alexander Andreyevich Ivanovb. 1806RUnot in their usual nameRussian artist (1806-1858)
  • Lev Ivanovb. 1834RUnot in their usual nameRussian ballet dancer and choreographer, creator of a "Swan Lake" (1834–1901)
  • Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanovb. 1859RUnot in their usual nameRussian and Soviet composer, conductor , musicologist and music teacher (1859–1935)
  • Vyacheslav Ivanovb. 1866ITnot in their usual nameRussian poet, playwright, theatre theorist, translator (1866–1949)
  • Vyacheslav Ivanovb. 1929RUnot in their usual nameSoviet linguist (1929-2017)
  • Valentin Ivanovb. 1934RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian footballer and football coach (1934-2011)
  • Igor Ivanovb. 1945RUnot in their usual nameRussian diplomat
  • Sergei Ivanovb. 1953RUnot in their usual nameRussian senior official and politician (1953–2026)
  • Gjorge Ivanovb. 1960MKnot in their usual namePresident of (North) Macedonia
  • Trifon Ivanovb. 1965BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer (1965-2016)

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 22 sources across 14 countries.

Official registers attesting Iwanow
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026445—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—445#7,239
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026375—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—375#8,850
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000117#133,114
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010101#159,712
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—57#95,634
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#35,770
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—15#30,836
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

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 Iwanow mean, and where does it come from?
A transliteration of the Russian surname Ивано́в (Ivanóv): Ivanov Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Iwanow have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 820 people named Iwanow, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled iwanow.
How common is the name Iwanow?
In Poland, the national register counted 820 people named Iwanow in 2026, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.

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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, “Iwanow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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