Lobov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Soviet lieutenant general commanding Russian pilots flying for North Korea
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ləʊbəv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lobov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 16Kas Лобов(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 44Kas Лобов
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 109Kas Лобов
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 Lobov 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
- 133 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,000 named Лобов, 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 Лобов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 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
(measured from records)Soviet lieutenant general commanding Russian pilots flying for North Korea.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lobov 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 | ≈9,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Лобов | 133 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈990 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Лобов | 32 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 109K | 299 | Лобов | 29 |
| BY Belarus | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Лобов | 13 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 304K | — | Лобов | 4 |
| PL Poland | 64 | 1 in 598K | 64 | Lobov | 7 |
| EE Estonia | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 117K | listed | Lobov | 4 |
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; 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)- Semyon Lobovb. 1913RUSoviet admiral (1913-1977)
- Vladimir Lobovb. 1935RUSoviet military personnel
- Andrei Lobovb. 1979EEEstonian politician (born 1979)
- Artem Lobovb. 1986RURussian-Irish mixed martial artist
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 64 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 64 | #41,710 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Lobov mean, and where does it come from?
- Soviet lieutenant general commanding Russian pilots flying for North Korea. Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
- How do you pronounce Lobov?
- A machine transcription gives /ləʊbəv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Lobov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.0 thousand people named Лобов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lobov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 64 people named Lobov in 2026, about 1 in 598 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lobovThe 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, “Lobov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.