Nanov
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Nanov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Bulgarian Нанов (Nanov).
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 26K(inferred from the name graph)
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 2.3M
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.4M
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. 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
- 46 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈260 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)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 Bulgarian Нанов (Nanov).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Nanov 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 | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 26K | Nanov | 46 |
| US United States | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 35M | Nanov | 11 |
| ES Spain | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 5.4M | Nanov | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 2.3M | Nanov | 6 |
| AU Australia | ≈7 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | Nanov | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 13M | Nanov | 8 |
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.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
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
- What does the name Nanov mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Bulgarian Нанов (Nanov). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Nanov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 264 people named Nanov in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nanov.
- How common is the name Nanov?
- Mondonomo estimates about 260 people in Bulgaria have Nanov as their first surname, about 1 in 26 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nanovThe 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, “Nanov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.