Jankow
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Jankow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 223K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 550Kfew records
- CHSwitzerland1 in 2.1M
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)
- Record sources
- 69 (measured from records)
- 1 in 223K (inferred from the name graph)
172 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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)Jankow 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 172 | 1 in 223K | 87 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 555K | — | Jankow | 46 |
| US United States | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | listed | Jankow | 69 |
| IT Italy | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Jankow | 1 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 7.1M | — | Jankow | 2 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | Jankow | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | 4 | 1 in 2.1M | 4 | Jankow | 3 |
172 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (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)- Yakov Yankovb. 1860BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian military personnel
- Aleksandăr Jankovb. 1924BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian jurist (1924-2019)
- Yanko Yankovb. 1924BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian actor
- Yordan Yankovb. 1936BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian journalist
- Zlatko Yankovb. 1966BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Petko Yankovb. 1977BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian sprinter
- Radoslav Yankovb. 1990BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian snowboarder
- Risto Jankovb. 1998MKnot in their usual nameMacedonian association football player
- Dominik Yankovb. 2000BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian association football player
- Yavor Yankovb. 2001BGnot in their usual namebadminton player
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)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #179,732 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 4 | #118,617 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #342,057 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
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 Jankow have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 172 people named Jankow, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jankow most common?
- Jankow is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 223 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Jankow?
- In Poland, the national register counted 172 people named Jankow in 2026, about 1 in 223 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jankowThe 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, “Jankow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.