Lvov

surname · Latin script

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

Lvov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 12Kas Львов(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 46Kas Львов
  • KZKazakhstan≈1 in 111Kas Львов

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 Lvov 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)

≈12,000 named Львов, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
147 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 27K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ЛьвовCyrillic(measured from records)
LvivLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Львов in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and Lviv 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 2

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

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Lvov 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 Lvov is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia≈12,000 est.≈1 in 12K—Львов147
UA Ukraine≈970 est.≈1 in 46K—Lviv28
BY Belarus≈230 est.≈1 in 41K—Львов16
KZ Kazakhstan≈170 est.≈1 in 111K318Львов31
US United States≈150 est.≈1 in 2.3MlistedLvov77
PL Poland811 in 473K76—2
EE Estonia≈45 est.≈1 in 27K95Lvov10

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; the us-wru-surnames-voterfile 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Lvov is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German

    Also written L'Vov

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written L'Vov, Lv́ov

  • Bulgarian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine

    Languages: Bulgarian, Croatian

    Also written L'Vov, Лвов, Lviv

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Russia

    Also written L'Vov

  • Hebrew surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, Russia, Latvia, Ukraine

    Also written לבוב

26 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Lvov is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Czech, Lviv (a city in Ukraine)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

16001700180019002000Grigori Lvov, b. 1650Nikolay Alexandrovich Lvov, b. 1753Alexei Lvov, b. 1798Georgy Lvov, b. 1861Vladimir Nikolaevich Lvov, b. 1897Serhiy Lvov, b. 1930Dmitry Lvov, b. 1931Alexandr Lvov, b. 1944Evgeny Lvov, b. 1964

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)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Lvov
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—95#854
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202676—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—76#36,686
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—13#8,713
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5#201,049
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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

In which country does Lvov have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Львов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Lvov?
In Poland, the national register counted 81 people named Lvov in 2026, about 1 in 473 thousand residents.

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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, “Lvov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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