Malkov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məlkɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malkov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Малко́в (Malkóv) or Russian Малько́в (Malʹkóv).
- RURussia≈1 in 16Kas Малков(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 67Kas Мальков
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 69Kas Мальков
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 Malkov 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
- 147 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,100 named Малков, est.
recorded for this name
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 Мальков in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and Малков in BY Belarus, CN China, UZ Uzbekistan.
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)
Borrowed from Russian Малко́в (Malkóv) or Russian Малько́в (Malʹkóv).
Sources 1
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malkov 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 | #890 | ≈9,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Мальков | 147 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 67K | — | Мальков | 33 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 438 | Мальков | 29 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 122K | — | Малков | 5 |
| CN China | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Малков | 2 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | Малков | 14 |
| PL Poland | — | 91 | 1 in 421K | 91 | Malkov | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈44 est. | ≈1 in 28K | 68 | Malkov | 6 |
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)
Malkov 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 transliteration of the Russian surname Малков (Malkov).
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)
- Vadim Malkovb. 1912RURussian writer and poet (1912-1994)
- Georgi Malkovb. 1913RURussian military personnel (1913-1975)
- Viktor Malkovb. 1931RURussian scientist
- Maksim Malkovb. 1939RURussian musicologist
- Igor Malkovb. 1965RUSoviet speed skater
- Georgy Malkovb. 1973BYactor (born 1973)
- Vladimir Malkovb. 1980RURussian footballer
- Anatoli Malkovb. 1981RURussian footballer
- Vladimir Malkovb. 1986RURussian badminton player
- Taylor Malkovb. 2002USIsraeli model and influencer
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 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 91 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 91 | #31,918 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 68 | #1,328 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 8 | #12,979 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Malkov mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Russian Малко́в (Malkóv) or Russian Малько́в (Malʹkóv). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Malkov?
- A machine transcription gives /məlkɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Malkov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.1 thousand people named Малков in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Malkov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 91 people named Malkov in 2026, about 1 in 421 thousand residents.
- How common is Malkov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Malkov is the 890th most common surname of 1,952,411 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/malkovThe 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, “Malkov” — the 890th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.