Komin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: chimney, flue (vertical tube or hollow column projecting from the roof of a building or placed on a steam locomotive or a ship, through which smoke, fumes, or ventilated air is emitted)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Komin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 93Kas Комин(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 53K
- PLPoland1 in 107K
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 Komin 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
- 111 (measured from records)
- 1 in 53K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 named Комин, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Комин in RU Russia and Комін 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)
chimney, flue (vertical tube or hollow column projecting from the roof of a building or placed on a steam locomotive or a ship, through which smoke, fumes, or ventilated air is emitted)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Komin 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 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 93K | — | Комин | 111 |
| PL Poland | 358 | 1 in 107K | 180 | Komin | 23 |
| BE Belgium | 234as Comyn | 1 in 50K | 234 | — | 1 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 378K | — | Комін | 12 |
| US United States | 115 | 1 in 2.9M | 139 | Komin | 21 |
| HR Croatia | 80 | 1 in 53K | 80 | — | — |
| EE Estonia | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 140K | listed | — | 5 |
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: Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form). 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)
Komin 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 Finnish, genitive singular of komi
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Breton, corner, avertir
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
In Breton, cumin
as a wordDeshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
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)
- Pavel Kominb. 1991RUfootballer
- Nukri Kominresearcher
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 18 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 180 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 180 | #17,847 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 178 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 178 | #18,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 139 | #128,411 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 80 | #9,437 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 74 | — |
| 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
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Komin mean, and where does it come from?
- chimney, flue (vertical tube or hollow column projecting from the roof of a building or placed on a steam locomotive or a ship, through which smoke, fumes, or ventilated air is emitted) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Komin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Комин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Komin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Komin is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 53 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Komin?
- In Poland, the national register counted 358 people named Komin in 2026, about 1 in 107 thousand 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/kominThe 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, “Komin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.