Nesterov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Nestor, the name of an old and wise hero in Homer’s Iliad)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nstɝɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nesterov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 3.6Kas Нестеров(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 13Kas Нестеров
- EEEstonia≈1 in 32K
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 Nesterov 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
- 165 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈39,000 named Нестеров, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Нестеров in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 3 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)
- Gkneisthai(measured from records)
- Czechne(measured from records)
Nestor, the name of an old and wise hero in Homer’s Iliad). The name is of uncertain etymology, perhaps from Gk neisthai to return (safely). It was borne by a 3rd-cent. Pamphilian bishop who became a popular saint in the Orthodox Church. Nekolny Czech: nickname for a stubborn person, from Czech ne not + the rare or obsolete adj. kolny unstable (mod. Czech koUsavy). Vars.: Nekola, Nekula.
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nesterov 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 | #297 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | listed | Нестеров | 165 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Нестеров | 45 |
| BY Belarus | #706 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Нестеров | 20 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Нестеров | 6 |
| CN China | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Нестеров | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 225 | 1 in 170K | 225 | Nesterov | 13 |
| EE Estonia | #394 | ≈39 est. | ≈1 in 32K | listed | Нестеров | 10 |
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 russian-surnames-unbegaun-1972 register; 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)
- Mikhail Nesterovb. 1862RURussian artist (1862-1942)
- Pyotr Nesterovb. 1887RURussian aviator (1887–1914)
- Ivan Nesterovb. 1932RURussian geologist
- Yurii Nesterovb. 1956BERussian mathematician
- Ignatiy Nesterovb. 1983UZUzbekistani association football player
- Alexandr Nesterovb. 1983RURussian actor
- Kirill Nesterovb. 1989EERussian footballer (born 1989)
- Andriy Nesterovb. 1990UAUkrainian football defender
- Nikita Nesterovb. 1993RURussian ice hockey player
- Arseniy Nesterovb. 2003RURussian chess 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 17 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 225 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 225 | #14,488 |
| RU Russia | Russian Surnames (Unbegaun, 1972) | — | — | — |
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 Nesterov come from?
- Nestor, the name of an old and wise hero in Homer’s Iliad). The name is of uncertain etymology, perhaps from Gk neisthai to return (safely). It was borne by a 3rd-cent. Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Nesterov?
- A machine transcription gives /nstɝɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- What does the name Nesterov mean?
- Recorded meaning: Nestor, the name of an old and wise hero in Homer’s Iliad).
- In which country does Nesterov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Нестеров in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nesterov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 225 people named Nesterov in 2026, about 1 in 170 thousand residents.
- How common is Nesterov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Nesterov is the 297th 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/nesterovThe 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, “Nesterov” — the 297th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.