Nilov
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/najlɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nilov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 35Kas Нилов(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 176Kas Нілов
- EEEstonia≈1 in 54K
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 Nilov 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
- 132 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 54K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,000 named Нилов, 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 Нилов in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 2 more and Нілов 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
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)
Nilov 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 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Нилов | 132 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 176K | — | Нілов | 15 |
| BY Belarus | ≈98 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Нилов | 11 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 249K | 116 | Нилов | 25 |
| DE Germany | ≈27 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Nilov | 16 |
| EE Estonia | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 54K | 34 | Нилов | 5 |
| PL Poland | 15 | 1 in 2.6M | 15 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 159K | — | Нилов | 3 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; the ee-stat-nimed 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)
- Konstantin Nilovb. 1856RURussian admiral (1856–1919)
- Nikolay Nilovb. 1922RUSoviet association football player and ice hockey player (1922-2001)
- Gennadi Nilovb. 1936RURussian actor
- Oleg Nilovb. 1962RURussian politician, Member of the State Duma
- Alexey Nilovb. 1964RURussian actor
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 7 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 34 | #3,045 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 17 | #6,696 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 15 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 15 | #107,243 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nilov?
- A machine transcription gives /najlɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Nilov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Нилов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nilov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 15 people named Nilov in 2026, about 1 in 2.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nilovThe 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, “Nilov”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.