Minkov
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/mɪnkɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Minkov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 105Kas Миньков
- UAUkraine≈1 in 210Kas Міньков
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 Minkov 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)
- Record sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Миньков in RU Russia, BY Belarus, Міньков in UA Ukraine and Минков in TJ Tajikistan.
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)Minkov 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 | #149 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Minkov | 90 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 105K | — | Миньков | 106 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 41K | — | Миньков | 10 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 210K | — | Міньков | 14 |
| US United States | — | 122 | 1 in 2.7M | 122 | Minkov | 74 |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 74K | — | Минков | 2 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)- Feodor Minkovb. 1830BGBulgarian educator
- Svetoslav Minkovb. 1902BGBulgarian writer (1902-1966)
- Mark Minkovb. 1944RUSoviet and Russian music composer (1944-2012)
- Margarit Minkovb. 1947BGBulgarian writer (1947-1997)
- Rumen Minkovb. 1950BGBulgarian football historians and statisticians
- Boris Minkovb. 1971BGBulgarian writer and literary historian
- Kris Minkovb. 1994BGBulgarian basketball player (born 1994)
- Nikolay Minkovb. 1997BGBulgarian association football player
- Dimitrie Mincunot in their usual namepolitician
- Nina Minkovanot in their usual namedirector (fl. in the 1970s and 1980s)
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 122 | #137,327 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 119 | #142,788 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Minkov?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪnkɑv/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
- In which country does Minkov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Minkov in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled minkov.
- How common is the name Minkov?
- In the United States, the national register counted 122 people named Minkov in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
- How common is Minkov compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Minkov is the 149th 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/minkovThe 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, “Minkov” — the 149th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.