Kalinin
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: short form of Kalinik (from Gk Kal(l)inik(i)os, a cpd of the elements kalos fair, lovely or hallos beauty, loveliness + nike victory). Kallinikios was a 3rd-cent
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəlɪnɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kalinin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 90K(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 8.8Kas Калінін
- EEEstonia≈1 in 15K
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 Kalinin 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 named Калінін, 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 Калінін in UA Ukraine.
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)
short form of Kalinik (from Gk Kal(l)inik(i)os, a cpd of the elements kalos fair, lovely or hallos beauty, loveliness + nike victory). Kallinikios was a 3rd-cent. martyr vener¬ ated in the Orthodox Church. Kalousek see Gall
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.
How Kalinin is read(measured from records)
Kalinin is one spelling over 3 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.
- Ukrainian44%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kalinin in Ukrainian.
- Russian29%
short form of Kalinik (from Gk Kal(l)inik(i)os, a cpd of the elements kalos fair, lovely or hallos beauty, loveliness + nike victory). Kallinikios was a 3rd-cent. martyr vener¬ ated in the Orthodox Church. Kalousek see Gall
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- English10%
city, Russia
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Tver, Russia (Тверь).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
Kalinin 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #878 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Калінін | 42 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 90K | listed | Kalinin | 140 |
| PL Poland | — | 500 | 1 in 77K | 472 | Kalinin | 17 |
| US United States | — | 294 | 1 in 1.1M | 334 | Kalinin | 109 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 213as Калинин | 1 in 90K | 2.6K | Kalinin | 15 |
| FI Finland | — | 141 | 1 in 40K | 141 | — | 3 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Kalinin | 4 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈88 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Kalinin | 12 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 15K | 285 | Kalinin | 15 |
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 russian-surnames-unbegaun-1972 register; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Kalinin 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 izh, Kalinin (a city in Kalinin Oblast)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Mikhail Kalininb. 1875RUSoviet politician (1875–1946)
- Fyodor Kalininb. 1882RURussian revolutionary
- Ekaterina Kalininab. 1882EEnot in their usual namewife of Soviet politician Mikhail Kalinin (1882-1960)
- Konstantin Kalininb. 1887PLWorld War I aviator and Soviet aircraft designer (1887–1938)
- Sergei Kalininb. 1926RURussian sport shooter (1926–1997)
- Igor Kalininb. 1959UASoviet director
- Aleksandr Kalininb. 1975RURussian association football player
- Dmitri Kalininb. 1980RURussian ice hockey player
- Sergei Kalininb. 1991RURussian ice hockey player
- Ihor Kalininb. 1995UAfootballer
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)
Attested in 27 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 472 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 472 | #6,800 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 334 | #64,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 294 | #67,126 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 285 | #155 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 201 | #86,341 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 141 | #9,787 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 28 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 28 | #73,082 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 14 | #8,105 |
| RU Russia | Russian Surnames (Unbegaun, 1972) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Kalinin mean, and where does it come from?
- short form of Kalinik (from Gk Kal(l)inik(i)os, a cpd of the elements kalos fair, lovely or hallos beauty, loveliness + nike victory). Kallinikios was a 3rd-cent. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Kalinin?
- A machine transcription gives /kəlɪnɪn/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Kalinin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Калінін in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kalinin?
- In Poland, the national register counted 500 people named Kalinin in 2026, about 1 in 77 thousand residents.
- How common is Kalinin compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Kalinin is the 878th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kalininThe 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, “Kalinin” — the 878th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.