Litvinov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Litvín, 'Lithuanian'
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/lʲɪtˈvʲinəf/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from литвинов
Litvinov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- EEEstonia≈1 in 12Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 18K
- UYUruguay1 in 36K
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 Litvinov 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
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈37,000 named Литвинов, 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
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Литвинов in RU Russia, BY Belarus, UZ Uzbekistan and 2 more and Літвінов 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)from Litvín, 'Lithuanian'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Russian Surnames
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
How Litvinov is read
(measured from records)Litvinov is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Russian39%
from Litvín, 'Lithuanian'
as a nameRussian Surnames
- Ukrainian37%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Litvinov in Ukrainian.
- English8.6%
Maxim. Russian political leader
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Litvinov 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 | #348 | ≈37,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | listed | Литвинов | 164 |
| UA Ukraine | #307 | ≈5,400 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Літвінов | 47 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 9.3K | — | Литвинов | 7 |
| BY Belarus | #424 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Литвинов | 20 |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Литвинов | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 472 | 1 in 81K | 470 | Litvinov | 16 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 12K | 100 | Литвинов | 19 |
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: the russian-surnames-unbegaun-1972 register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)- Dmitry Litvinovb. 1854RURussian botanist (1855-1929)
- Maxim Litvinovb. 1876RUSoviet diplomat and foreign minister (1876–1951)
- Ivy Litwinowb. 1889GBnot in their usual nameEnglish-Russian writer, translator and wife of Maxim Litvinov (1889-1977)
- Boris Litvinovb. 1929RURussian chemist and physicist (1929–2010)
- Pavel Litvinovb. 1940RUphysicist, Soviet dissident
- Boris Litvinovb. 1954UARussian politician
- Sergey Litvinovb. 1958RUathletics competitor
- Juri Litvinovb. 1978KZfigure skater
- Lyudmila Litvinovab. 1985RUnot in their usual nameRussian athlete
- Sergey Litvinovb. 1986RURussian hammer thrower
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)25 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 470 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 470 | #6,826 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 100 | #799 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 6 | #15,290 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #359,361 |
| RU Russia | Russian Surnames (Unbegaun, 1972) | — | — | — |
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)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 Litvinov mean, and where does it come from?
- from Litvín, 'Lithuanian' Recorded by Russian Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Litvinov?
- In Russian /lʲɪtˈvʲinəf/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Litvinov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 37 thousand people named Литвинов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Litvinov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 472 people named Litvinov in 2026, about 1 in 81 thousand residents.
- How common is Litvinov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Litvinov is the 348th 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/litvinovThe 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, “Litvinov” — the 348th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.