Nikonov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/nɪkənɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nikonov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Никонов (Nikonov).
- RURussia≈1 in 5.9Kas Никонов(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 31Kas Ніконов
- EEEstonia≈1 in 35K
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 Nikonov 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
- 155 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 35K (inferred from the name graph)
≈24,000 named Никонов, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Никонов in RU Russia, CN China, BY Belarus and 2 more and Ніконов 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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Russian Никонов (Nikonov).
Sources 1
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nikonov 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 | #601 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | listed | Никонов | 155 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Ніконов | 32 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Никонов | 19 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Никонов | 6 |
| CN China | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Никонов | 4 |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Никонов | 2 |
| PL Poland | — | 128 | 1 in 299K | 128 | Nikonov | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 35K | listed | Nikonov | 11 |
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)
- Matryona Nikonovab. 1883RUnot in their usual nameRussian saint
- Yevgeny Nikonovb. 1920RUSoviet sailor (1920-1941)
- Viktor Nikonovb. 1929RUpolitician (1929–1993)
- Vadim Nikonovb. 1948RURussian footballer
- Gennadiy Nikonovb. 1950RURussian firearm designer (1950–2003)
- Valentina Nikonovab. 1952RUnot in their usual namefencer
- Vladimirs Nikonovsb. 1955LVnot in their usual nameLatvian politician
- Vyacheslav Nikonovb. 1956RURussian political scientist
- Angelina Nikonovab. 1976RUnot in their usual namefilmmaker
- Tatiana Nikonovab. 1978RUnot in their usual nameRussian feminist activist and sex blogger
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 13 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 128 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 128 | #24,094 |
| 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
- What does the name Nikonov mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Russian Никонов (Nikonov). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Nikonov?
- A machine transcription gives /nɪkənɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Nikonov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Никонов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nikonov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 128 people named Nikonov in 2026, about 1 in 299 thousand residents.
- How common is Nikonov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Nikonov is the 601st most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nikonov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nikonovThe 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, “Nikonov” — the 601st most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.