Mihov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mʲhɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mihov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 3.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 72Kas Міхов
- RURussia≈1 in 531Kas Михов
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 Mihov 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 85 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,100 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Михов in RU Russia, MK North Macedonia and Міхов 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)
Mihov 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #206 | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Mihov | 85 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈610 est. | ≈1 in 72K | — | Міхов | 13 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 531K | — | Михов | 82 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Mihov | 4 |
| US United States | — | ≈79 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | listed | Mihov | 54 |
| ES Spain | — | 25 | 1 in 2M | 25 | Mihov | 11 |
| HR Croatia | — | 18 | 1 in 235K | 18 | Mihov | 12 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 8as Михов | 1 in 266K | 8 | Михов | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); 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)
- Nikola Vasilev Mikhovb. 1877BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian economist
- Nikola Mikhovb. 1891BGnot in their usual nameRegent of Bulgaria (1891-1945)
- Mikho Mikhovb. 1949BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian politician (born 1949)
- Valentin Mihovb. 1954BGBulgarian footballer
- Iliyan Mihovb. 1962BGBulgarian pop-folk singer
- Ilian Mihovb. 1966BGeconomist
- Ivan Mihovb. 1991BGBulgarian footballer
- Tzvetan Mihovb. 1991BGBulgarian tennis 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 11 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 25 | #71,964 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 25 | #71,513 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 18 | #24,407 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 16 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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 Mihov?
- A machine transcription gives /mʲhɑv/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
- In which country does Mihov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.1 thousand people named Mihov in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mihov.
- How common is the name Mihov?
- In Spain, the national register counted 25 people named Mihov, about 1 in 2.0 million residents.
- How common is Mihov compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Mihov is the 206th most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mihov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mihovThe 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, “Mihov” — the 206th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.