Ostrovsky
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/oʊztɹɑvski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ostrovsky is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Russian Островский (Ostrovskij).
- ILIsrael1 in 5.6Kas אוסטרובסקי(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 17Kas Островский
- USUnited States1 in 47Kas Ostrowski
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 Ostrovsky 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 190 (measured from records)
- 1 in 167K (inferred from the name graph)
20,348 named Ostrowski, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Argentina
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
4 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled אוסטרובסקי in PL Poland, IL Israel, AR Argentina and 1 more and Островский in RU Russia, BY Belarus, UZ Uzbekistan.
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 Островский (Ostrovskij).
Sources 1
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ostrovsky 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | — | 20,348as Ostrowski | 1 in 1.9K | 20K | אוסטרובסקי | 2 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Островский | 145 |
| US United States | — | 7,005as Ostrowski | 1 in 47K | 7K | Ostrovsky | 190 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Островский | 3 |
| IL Israel | #571 | 1,536as אוסטרובסקי | 1 in 5.6K | 1.5K | אוסטרובסקי | 42 |
| BY Belarus | #401 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.6K | — | Островский | 27 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | אוסטרובסקי | 6 |
| AR Argentina | — | 273 | 1 in 167K | 273 | אוסטרובסקי | 3 |
20,348 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026, counting the spelling ostrowski. 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); CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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)
- Alexander Ostrovskyb. 1823RURussian playwright (1823-1886)
- Radaslaŭ Astroŭskib. 1887USnot in their usual nameBelarusian politician
- Alexander Ostrowskib. 1893CHnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician (1893–1986)
- Nikolai Ostrovskyb. 1904UAUkrainian-Russian writer (1904-1936)
- Arkady Ostrovskyb. 1914RURussian composer (1914–1967)
- Victor Ostrovskyb. 1949CAAmerican/Israeli writer
- Andrey Astrowskib. 1973BYnot in their usual namefootballer
- Alexei Ostrovskyb. 1976RURussian politician
- Simon Ostrovskyb. 1981USSoviet-born American journalist
- Josh Ostrovskyb. 1985USAmerican actor and television personality
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 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 578 | #40,749 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 560 | #39,281 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 524 | #39,499 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 273 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 22 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 22 | #85,122 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #155,156 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Ostrovsky mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Russian Островский (Ostrovskij). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Ostrovsky?
- A machine transcription gives /oʊztɹɑvski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Ostrovsky have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 20 thousand people named Ostrowski, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Ostrovsky most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ostrovsky is densest in Argentina — about 1 in 167 thousand people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Ostrovsky?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 273 people named Ostrovsky, about 1 in 167 thousand residents.
- How common is Ostrovsky compared with other names?
- In Belarus, Ostrovsky is the 401st most common surname of 80,255 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ostrovskyThe 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, “Ostrovsky” — the 401st most common surname in Belarus. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.