Kuz'Min

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Kuz'Min is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 78th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Кузьмин (Kuzʹmin).

rarermore common
  • CNChina≈1 in 264K(inferred from the name graph)
  • RURussia≈1 in 1.5Kas Кузьмин
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 6.5Kas Кузьмін

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 Kuz'Min 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)

≈93,000 named Кузьмин, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
173 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

Kuz'MinLatin(measured from records)
КузьминCyrillic(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Кузьмин in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan, CN China and 3 more, Кузьмін in UA Ukraine and Kuzmin in PL Poland.

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)

Borrowed from Russian Кузьмин (Kuzʹmin).

Sources 3

  • A dictionary of surnames
  • The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
  • Wiktionary

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Kuz'Min 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.

Where Kuz'Min is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#78≈93,000 est.≈1 in 1.5K—Кузьмин173
UA Ukraine#426≈6,800 est.≈1 in 6.5K—Кузьмін43
CN China—≈5,300 est.≈1 in 264K—Кузьмин3
BY Belarus#316≈1,800 est.≈1 in 5.3K—Кузьмин19
UZ Uzbekistan—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 29K—Кузьмин7
PL Poland—6561 in 58K624Kuzmin27
EE Estonia#484411 in 2.8K441Кузьмин22
KG Kyrgyzstan—≈260 est.≈1 in 23K—Кузьмин12

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: Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Kuz'Min is also recorded as 9 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Kuz’min, Kuzmin, Kuźmin, Kuzḿin

  • English surname13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Russia, Germany, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Kuzmin, Kuz’min, Kuźmin, Kuzmini

  • French surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Russia, United States, Belgium

    Also written Kuzmin, Kuźmin

  • Chinese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, China, Ukraine, Finland

    Also written Kuzmin

  • Japanese surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, Russia, United States

    Also written Kuzmin

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, Russia, Cyprus

    Also written Kuzmin

  • Lithuanian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Russia, Latvia

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Kuzmin

  • Georgian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia

    Also written Kuzmin, კუზმინ

  • Hindi surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine

    Also written Kuzmin

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Roman Kuzmin, b. 1811Nikolai Kuzmin, b. 1883Rodion Kuzmin, b. 1891Joseph Kuzmin, b. 1910Vadim Kuzmin, b. 1937Gennady Kuzmin, b. 1946Afanasijs Kuzmins, b. 1947Oleg Kuzmin, b. 1981Anastasiya Kuzmina, b. 1984Ekaterina Shabunova, b. 1996

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Kuz'Min under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Kuz'Min mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Russian Кузьмин (Kuzʹmin). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles and 1 other source.
In which country does Kuz'Min have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 93 thousand people named Кузьмин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kuz'Min most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kuz'Min is densest in Estonia — about 1 in 2.8 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kuz'Min?
In Poland, the national register counted 656 people named Kuz'Min in 2026, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
How common is Kuz'Min compared with other names?
In Russia, Kuz'Min is the 78th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Kuz'Min” — the 78th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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