Kanevsky
surname · Latin script
Meaning: habitational name for someone from the town of Kanev in Ukraine
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/kaɲɪfs̪cɪj/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from каневский · uncertain
Kanevsky is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 58Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 730Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 1Mfew records
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 Kanevsky 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 131 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 58K (inferred from the name graph)
≈970 named Каневский, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Israel, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)5 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Каневский in RU Russia, IL Israel, BY Belarus and Каневський 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)habitational name for someone from the town of Kanev in Ukraine.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kanevsky 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈970 est. | ≈1 in 148K | — | Каневский | 114 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 85K | — | Каневський | 26 |
| US United States | 261 | 1 in 1.3M | 261 | Kanevsky | 131 |
| IL Israel | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 58K | — | Каневский | 17 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈52 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Kanevsky | 10 |
| BY Belarus | ≈50 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Каневский | 8 |
| BB Barbados | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 125K | — | Kanevsky | 1 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)- Meyer Kanewskyb. 1880UAnot in their usual nameRussian-American hazzan and opera singer
- Aminadav Kanevskyb. 1898UARussian artist (1898-1976)
- Yaakov Yisrael Kanievskyb. 1899ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli rabbi
- Zinovy Kanevskyb. 1932RUSoviet polar explorer, writer (1932–1996)
- Aleksandr Kanevskyb. 1933UASoviet writer and screenwriter
- Vitali Kanevskyb. 1935RUSoviet and Russian film director, producer and screenwriter
- Viktor Kanevskyib. 1936USnot in their usual nameSoviet footballer (1936-2018)
- Leonid Kanevskyb. 1939RUSoviet, Russian and Israeli theater and film actor, TV presenter
- Victor Kanevskyb. 1963USUkrainian dancer
- Gennady Kanevskyb. 1965RURussian poet and contributing editor
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 261 | #74,141 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 233 | #86,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 220 | #80,216 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Kanevsky mean, and where does it come from?
- habitational name for someone from the town of Kanev in Ukraine. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kanevsky?
- It depends on the language: in Russian /kaɲɪfs̪cɪj/; in Spanish /kaneβski/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kanevsky have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 973 people named Каневский in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kanevsky?
- In the United States, the national register counted 261 people named Kanevsky in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kanevskyThe 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, “Kanevsky”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.