Krotov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kɹətɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Krotov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 12Kas Кротов(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 41Kas Кротов
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 67Kas Кротов
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)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 47K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 named Кротов, 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 Кротов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 4 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 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(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 | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Кротов | 146 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Кротов | 26 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Кротов | 18 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 67K | 426 | Кротов | 30 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 304K | — | Кротов | 5 |
| PL Poland | — | 61 | 1 in 628K | 61 | — | 3 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 47K | listed | Кротов | 5 |
| FI Finland | #994 | 21 | 1 in 265K | 21 | Кротов | 2 |
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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); 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)
- A.S. Krotovb. 1907botanist
- Anton Krotovb. 1976RURussian explorer
- Aleksey Krotovb. 1991RURussian video blogger
- Pavel Krotovb. 1992RURussian freestyle skier (1992–2023)
- Aleksandr Krotovb. 1997RURussian association football player (born 1997)
- A.I. Krotovbotanist
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 9 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 61 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 61 | #43,183 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 21 | #42,020 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Krotov?
- A machine transcription gives /kɹətɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Krotov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Кротов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Krotov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 61 people named Krotov in 2026, about 1 in 628 thousand residents.
- How common is Krotov compared with other names?
- In Finland, Krotov is the 994th most common surname of 94,499 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Krotov?
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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” — the 994th most common surname in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.