Karpova
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɑːpɒʋə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Karpova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 1.9Kas Карпова(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 3.5Kas Карпова
- UAUkraine≈1 in 5.7Kas Карпова
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 Karpova 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈74,000 named Карпова, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Карпова in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Karpova 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 | #133 | ≈74,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Карпова | 168 |
| UA Ukraine | #527 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Карпова | 46 |
| BY Belarus | #227 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Карпова | 24 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #499 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Карпова | 38 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Карпова | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 553 | 1 in 69K | 553 | Karpova | 8 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Karpova | 17 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Karpova 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 Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (skrajciems) Baltinavas pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)
- Anna Samoilowna Karpowab. 1883UAnot in their usual nameRussian revolutionary (1883–1968)
- Irina Tweedieb. 1907GBnot in their usual nameRussian-British Sufi
- Darya Karpovab. 1914RURussian actor (1914-2003)
- Vera Aleksandrovna Karpovab. 1933RUSoviet and Russian actress (1933-2024)
- Marina Karpovab. 1972BYBelarusian animation director
- Elena Karpovab. 1980RURussian basketball player (born 1980)
- Irina Karpovab. 1980KZKazakh heptathlete
- Nadezhda Karpovab. 1995RURussian association football 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)
Attested in 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 553 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 553 | #5,870 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Karpova?
- A machine transcription gives /kɑːpɒʋə/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Karpova have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 74 thousand people named Карпова in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Karpova?
- In Poland, the national register counted 553 people named Karpova in 2026, about 1 in 69 thousand residents.
- How common is Karpova compared with other names?
- In Russia, Karpova is the 133rd most common surname of 1,952,411 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/karpovaThe 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, “Karpova” — the 133rd most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.