Krotov
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/krɐˈtof/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from кротов
Krotov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Krotov is also written Кротов in Cyrillic.
- FIFinland1 in 265K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 628K
- NONorway1 in 911K
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 Krotov 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
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 named Кротов, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Krotov in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Locally spelled Кротов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan 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.
How to pronounce Krotov
- Russian:/krɐˈtof/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Krotov is found
(measured from records)Krotov 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 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Кротов | 146 |
| BY Belarus | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 8.5K | — | Кротов | 18 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Кротов | 26 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 80K | — | Кротов | 5 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 64K | 426 | Кротов | 30 |
| PL Poland | 61 | 1 in 628K | 61 | — | 3 |
| EE Estonia | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 34K | listed | Кротов | 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: 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Aleksandr Krotovb. 1893RURussian footballer (born 1895)
- Anton Krotovb. 1976RURussian explorer
- Pavel Krotovb. 1992RURussian freestyle skier (1992–2023)
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 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Krotov?
- In Russian /krɐˈtof/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Krotov?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Кротов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Belarus, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Krotov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 61 people named Krotov in 2026, about 1 in 628 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/krotovThe 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, “Krotov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.