Kotow
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kotow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 3.2Kas Котов(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 3.6Kas Котов
- UAUkraine≈1 in 8.3Kas Котов
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 Kotow 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
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 named Котов, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Котов
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Котов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 3 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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kotow 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 | #256 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Котов | 163 |
| UA Ukraine | #761 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | — | Котов | 51 |
| BY Belarus | #193 | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Котов | 24 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Котов | 6 |
| PL Poland | — | 372as Kotov | 1 in 103K | 368 | Kotow | 24 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Котов | 33 |
| EE Estonia | #400 | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Котов | 18 |
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)
Kotow is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In cdo, to tap, to knock upon, to kotow, to to petition humbly
as a wordDictionary of the Foochow Dialect
In dsb, superseded spelling of kótow
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)
- Sergey Kotovb. 1912RUHero of the Soviet Union
- Alexander Kotovb. 1913RUSoviet chess player (1913–1981)
- Boris Kotovb. 1922RUSoviet camera operator (1922-1984)
- Oleg Kotovb. 1965RURussian cosmonaut
- Nicholas A. Kotovb. 1965USAmerican chemist
- Tatiana Kotovab. 1985RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer and Miss Russia 2006
- Anna Viktorovna Kotovab. 1986RUnot in their usual nameRussian theater and film actress
- Alexander Kotovb. 1990RURussian professional football player
- Pavel Kotovb. 1995RURussian association football player
- Pavel Kotovb. 1998RURussian tennis 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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 25 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 25 | #78,447 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 24 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 24 | #80,317 |
Reference works 1
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 are other forms of the name Kotow?
- In the etymology graph, Kowtow is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Kotow have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Котов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kotow?
- In Poland, the national register counted 372 people named Kotov in 2026, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
- How common is Kotow compared with other names?
- In Russia, Kotow is the 256th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kotow?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kotowThe 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, “Kotow” — the 256th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.