Lvov
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/lʲvof/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from львов
Lvov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 473K(measured from records)
- USUnited States≈1 in 2.4Mfew records
- ESSpain1 in 2.8M
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 named Львов, 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)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Львов in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 more 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.
Cited for this meaning 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 the surname Lvov is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Львов | 147 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Lviv | 28 |
| BY Belarus | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Львов | 16 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Львов | 5 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 104K | 318 | Львов | 31 |
| PL Poland | 81 | 1 in 473K | 76 | — | 2 |
| EE Estonia | ≈78 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 95 | Lvov | 10 |
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); 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 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)- Nikolay Alexandrovich Lvovb. 1753RURussian artist and architect (1753-1804)
- Alexei Lvovb. 1798EERussian composer (1798-1870)
- Georgy Lvovb. 1861DERussian statesman and the first post-imperial prime minister of Russia (1861-1925)
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Lvov?
- In Russian /lʲvof/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lvov?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Львов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Lvov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 81 people named Lvov in 2026, about 1 in 473 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Lvov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/lvovThe 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, “Lvov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.