Kuzmin
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/kəzˈmɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuzmin 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).
- 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 Kuzmin 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
- 173 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈93,000 named Кузьмин, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Кузьмин in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan, CN China and 3 more and Кузьмін in UA Ukraine.
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 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuzmin 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 | #78 | ≈93,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Кузьмин | 173 |
| UA Ukraine | #426 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 6.5K | — | Кузьмін | 43 |
| CN China | — | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Кузьмин | 3 |
| BY Belarus | #316 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Кузьмин | 19 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Кузьмин | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 656 | 1 in 58K | 624 | Kuzmin | 27 |
| EE Estonia | #48 | 441 | 1 in 2.8K | 441 | Кузьмин | 22 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Кузьмин | 12 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Roman Kuzminb. 1811RURussian architect and restorer (1811–1867)
- Mikhail Kuzminb. 1872RURussian writer (1872-1936)
- Rodion Kuzminb. 1891RURussian mathematician (1891–1949)
- Joseph Kuzminb. 1910RURussian politician (1910-1996)
- Vadim Kuzminb. 1937RURussian physicist (1937-2015)
- Gennady Kuzminb. 1946UAUkrainian chess player (1946–2020)
- Afanasijs Kuzminsb. 1947LVnot in their usual nameLatvian sport shooter (born 1947)
- Oleg Kuzminb. 1981RURussian footballer
- Anastasiya Kuzminab. 1984RUnot in their usual nameSlovak biathlete
- Ekaterina Shabunovab. 1996RUnot in their usual nameRussian female curler
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 624 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 624 | #5,045 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 441 | #81 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 441 | #81 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 32 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 32 | #67,385 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 25 | #4,459 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 does the name Kuzmin 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.
- How do you pronounce Kuzmin?
- A machine transcription gives /kəzˈmɪn/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Kuzmin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 93 thousand people named Кузьмин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kuzmin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kuzmin 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 Kuzmin?
- In Poland, the national register counted 656 people named Kuzmin in 2026, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
- How common is Kuzmin compared with other names?
- In Russia, Kuzmin is the 78th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kuzmin?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kuzminThe 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, “Kuzmin” — the 78th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.