Khrushchev
surname · Latin script
Meaning: English transliteration of the Russian surname Хрущёв (Xruščóv); usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Nikita Khrushchev
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Khrushchev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 53Kas Хрущев(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 132Kas Хрущов
- EEEstonia≈1 in 701K
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 Khrushchev 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)
- Sources
- 125 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 701K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,700 named Хрущев, 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 Хрущев in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, EE Estonia, Хрущёв in BY Belarus, MD Moldova and Хрущов 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)
English transliteration of the Russian surname Хрущёв (Xruščóv); usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Nikita Khrushchev.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Khrushchev 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 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 53K | — | Хрущев | 125 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 132K | — | Хрущов | 13 |
| BY Belarus | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Хрущёв | 12 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 240K | 158 | Хрущев | 27 |
| PL Poland | 29as Khrushchov | 1 in 1.3M | 29 | — | 2 |
| MD Moldova | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 139K | — | Хрущёв | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | Хрущев | 3 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; 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)
Khrushchev is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Nikita, premier, USSR
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Egyptian pharoah
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, Khufu [Cheops]
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
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)
- Konstantin von Chrustschoffb. 1852DEnot in their usual nameRussian geologist
- Nikita Khrushchevb. 1894RUleader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964
- Leonid Khrushchevb. 1917UASoviet pilot (1917–1943)
- Rada Adzhubeyb. 1929RUnot in their usual nameRussian journalist
- Sergei Khrushchevb. 1935RUSoviet scientist (1935-2020)
- Nikita Khrushchevb. 1959RUSoviet journalist (1959-2007)
- Alexey Khruschiovb. 1982MDnot in their usual nameMoldovan chess 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Khrushchev mean, and where does it come from?
- English transliteration of the Russian surname Хрущёв (Xruščóv); usually refers to the Russian revolutionary and Soviet Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU(b) Nikita Khrushchev. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Khrushchev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.7 thousand people named Хрущев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Khrushchev?
- In Poland, the national register counted 29 people named Khrushchov in 2026, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/khrushchevThe 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, “Khrushchev”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.