Kabanov

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Boar’ (a borrowing from a Turkic language)

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

/kəbənɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Kabanov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 7Kas Кабанов(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 21Kas Кабанов
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 28K

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 Kabanov 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)

≈20,000 named Кабанов, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
152 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

KabanovLatin(measured from records)
КабановCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Кабанов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 2 more.

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)

Boar’ (a borrowing from a Turkic language). name Yaakov (see Jacob), but there does not seem to be any evidence to support this conjecture. Var.: Czech: Kavka.

Sources 1

  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kabanov 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 Kabanov is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#714≈20,000 est.≈1 in 7K—Кабанов152
UA Ukraine—≈2,100 est.≈1 in 21K—Кабанов34
UZ Uzbekistan—≈550 est.≈1 in 55K—Кабанов5
BY Belarus—≈400 est.≈1 in 24K—Кабанов17
ZW Zimbabwe#534≈160 est.≈1 in 88K—Кабанов2
PL Poland—1361 in 281K136Kabanov8
EE Estonia—≈44 est.≈1 in 28KlistedKabanov9

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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kabanov is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Kazakh surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Kazakhstan, Russia, United States

    Languages: Kazakh, Kyrgyz

    Also written Кабанов

32 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Kabanov is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, Boar’ (a borrowing from a Turkic language). Cogns.: Jewish (E Ashkenazic): Kaban(owitz) (reason(s) for adoption unclear). Pol.: Kabacinski.

    as a nameA dictionary of surnames

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Aleksandr Kabanov, b. 1899Viktor Kabanov, b. 1934Alexander Kabanov, b. 1948Nikolajs Kabanovs, b. 1970Dmitri Kabanov, b. 1980Taras Kabanov, b. 1981Maksim Kabanov, b. 1982Aleksey Kabanov, b. 1983Sergei Kabanov, b. 1986Kirill Kabanov, b. 1992

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)

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Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Kabanov
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026136—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—136#22,830

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

Where does the name Kabanov come from?
Boar’ (a borrowing from a Turkic language). name Yaakov (see Jacob), but there does not seem to be any evidence to support this conjecture. Var.: Czech: Kavka. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
How do you pronounce Kabanov?
A machine transcription gives /kəbənɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
What does the name Kabanov mean?
Recorded meaning: Boar’ (a borrowing from a Turkic language).
In which country does Kabanov have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 20 thousand people named Кабанов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Kabanov?
In Poland, the national register counted 136 people named Kabanov in 2026, about 1 in 281 thousand residents.
How common is Kabanov compared with other names?
In Russia, Kabanov is the 714th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Kabanov” — the 714th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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