Kuleshov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kuəɫzhɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuleshov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 6.6Kas Кулешов(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 28Kas Кулешов
- KZKazakhstan1 in 138Kas Кулешов
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 Kuleshov 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
- 150 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 55K (inferred from the name graph)
≈22,000 named Кулешов, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кулешов 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.
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)
Kuleshov 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 | #684 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Кулешов | 150 |
| BY Belarus | #377 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 1 | Кулешов | 19 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Кулешов | 38 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Кулешов | 4 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 138as Кулешов | 1 in 138K | 1.1K | Кулешов | 35 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 55K | — | Кулешов | 9 |
| PL Poland | — | 79 | 1 in 485K | 79 | Kuleshov | 6 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 70K | listed | Kuleshov | 6 |
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 Kazakhs, by region of residence; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); 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)
- Lev Kuleshovb. 1899RUSoviet filmmaker and film theorist (1899–1970)
- Mikhail Kuleshovb. 1900UARussian Nazi collaborator
- Arkadz Kulyashowb. 1914BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian poet and translator (1914-1978)
- Vasily Kuleshovb. 1919RURussian literary scholar
- Vladimir Kuleshovb. 1941BYactor (1941-1999)
- Alexander Kuleshovb. 1946RURussian mathematician
- Pyotr Kuleshovb. 1966RURussian actor
- Aleksey Kuleshovb. 1979RUvolleyball player
- Dmitrij Alexandrovich Kuleshovb. 1983RURussian entomologist
- Egor Koulechovb. 1994RUnot in their usual nameIsraeli-Russian basketball 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 79 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 79 | #35,606 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- How do you pronounce Kuleshov?
- A machine transcription gives /kuəɫzhɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Kuleshov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 22 thousand people named Кулешов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kuleshov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 79 people named Kuleshov in 2026, about 1 in 485 thousand residents.
- How common is Kuleshov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Kuleshov is the 684th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuleshovThe 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, “Kuleshov” — the 684th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.