Malinov
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məɫɪnɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malinov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 9.2K(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 96Kas Малинов
- UAUkraine≈1 in 445Kas Малінов
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 Malinov 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)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,500 named Малинов, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, 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 Малинов in RU Russia, BY Belarus, MK North Macedonia and Малінов 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.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malinov 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 | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Малинов | 105 |
| BG Bulgaria | #392 | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 9.2K | — | Malinov | 65 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈99 est. | ≈1 in 445K | — | Малінов | 17 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 133K | — | Малинов | 7 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Malinov | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 58 | 1 in 145K | 58 | — | 2 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 18as Малинов | 1 in 118K | 18 | Малинов | 3 |
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: BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
- Aleksandar Malinovb. 1867BGBulgarian politician (1867-1938)
- Olga Malinovab. 1962RUnot in their usual namepolitical scientist
- Svetoslav Malinovb. 1968BGMember of the European Parliament from Bulgaria
- Nikolai Malinovb. 1968BGBulgarian politician
- Ivo Malinovb. 1993BGassociation football player
- Ofelia Malinovb. 1996ITItalian 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 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 58 | #16,638 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- How do you pronounce Malinov?
- A machine transcription gives /məɫɪnɑv/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
- In which country does Malinov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.5 thousand people named Малинов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Malinov?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 58 people named Malinov in 2024, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
- How common is Malinov compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Malinov is the 392nd most common surname of 67,606 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/malinovThe 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, “Malinov” — the 392nd most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.