Makhno
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məknoʊ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Makhno is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 18Kas Махно(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 63Kas Махно
- PLPoland1 in 194K
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 Makhno 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 118 (measured from records)
- 1 in 194K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,500 named Махно, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Махно in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Makhno 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Махно | 41 |
| RU Russia | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Махно | 118 |
| PL Poland | 197 | 1 in 194K | 108 | — | 3 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 191K | 69 | Махно | 22 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 291K | — | Махно | 8 |
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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Makhno 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 English, A surname from Ukrainian; especially when referring to Nestor Makhno, the leader of the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine during the Russian Civil War.
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)
- Savely Makhnob. 1872UAUkrainian anarcho-communist
- Nestor Makhnob. 1888UAUkrainian anarchist revolutionary (1888–1934)
- Olena Makhnob. 1922KZdaughter of Ukrainian anarchist revolutionaries Nestor Makhno and Halyna Kuzmenko (1922-1993)
- Vasyl Makhnob. 1964UApoet
- Lesya Makhnob. 1981RURussian volleyball player
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 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 108 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 108 | #28,153 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 89 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 89 | #32,496 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- How do you pronounce Makhno?
- A machine transcription gives /məknoʊ/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Makhno have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.5 thousand people named Махно in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Makhno most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Makhno is densest in Poland — about 1 in 194 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Makhno?
- In Poland, the national register counted 197 people named Makhno in 2026, about 1 in 194 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Makhno?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/makhnoThe 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, “Makhno”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.