Molchanov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from the Russ, nickname Molchan (from molchat to be silent), denoting a taciturn individual
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/məɫtɕɪn̪of/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from молчанов · uncertain
Molchanov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 44Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 113K
- NONorway1 in 456K
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 Molchanov itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 39K (inferred from the name graph)
≈27,000 named Молчанов, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Молчанов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus 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
(measured from records)from the Russ, nickname Molchan (from molchat to be silent), denoting a taciturn individual. As a Jewish name it may be based on some now irrecoverable minor incident. Vars.: Jewish: Molchan(ov)sky.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Molchanov 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 | #585 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | — | Молчанов | 159 |
| UA Ukraine | #932 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Молчанов | 44 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Молчанов | 17 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈830 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Молчанов | 6 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Molchanov | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 338 | 1 in 113K | 338 | Molchanov | 12 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 39K | listed | Molchanov | 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: 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Viktorin Molchanovb. 1886RURussian general (1886-1975)
- Pavel Alexandrovich Molchanovb. 1893RURussian scientist (1893-1941)
- Gieorgij Mołczanowb. 1897UAnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1897-1937)
- Alexey Molchanovb. 1902UARussian railwayman
- Kirill Molchanovb. 1922RUcomposer (1922-1982)
- Albert Molchanovb. 1928RURussian mathematician (1928–2011)
- Vladimir Molchanovb. 1950RURussian journalist
- Andrey Molchanovb. 1971RURussian politician
- Denys Molchanovb. 1987MDUkrainian tennis player (born 1987)
- Alexey Molchanovb. 1987RURussian champion freediver
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 338 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 338 | #9,653 |
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
- Where does the name Molchanov come from?
- from the Russ, nickname Molchan (from molchat to be silent), denoting a taciturn individual. As a Jewish name it may be based on some now irrecoverable minor incident. Vars.: Jewish: Molchan(ov)sky. Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Molchanov?
- In Russian /məɫtɕɪn̪of/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Molchanov mean?
- Recorded meaning: from the Russ, nickname Molchan (from molchat to be silent), denoting a taciturn individual.
- In which country does Molchanov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 27 thousand people named Молчанов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Molchanov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 338 people named Molchanov in 2026, about 1 in 113 thousand residents.
- How common is Molchanov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Molchanov is the 585th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/molchanovThe 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, “Molchanov” — the 585th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.