Ponomarev
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pənoʊmɑɹɛv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ponomarev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 22K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M
- RURussia≈1 in 2.3Kas Пономарев
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 Ponomarev 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
- 164 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 14K (inferred from the name graph)
≈60,000 named Пономарев, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Belarus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
3 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Пономарев in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan, CN China and 2 more and Пономарьов 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 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ponomarev 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 | #141 | ≈60,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Пономарев | 164 |
| UA Ukraine | #427 | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | — | Пономарьов | 34 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Пономарев | 7 |
| BY Belarus | #595 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Пономарев | 17 |
| CN China | — | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | — | Пономарев | 3 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Пономарев | 12 |
| US United States | — | 206 | 1 in 1.6M | 233 | Ponomarev | 113 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Boris Ponomarevb. 1905RUSoviet historian and politician (1905-1995)
- Dmitry Grigorievich Ponomarevb. 1908RUSoviet military personnel (1908-1982)
- Aleksandr Ponomarevb. 1918UASoviet footballer (1918–1973)
- Yuri Ponomarevb. 1932RUSoviet cosmonaut
- Lev Ponomaryovb. 1941RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Vyacheslav Ponomarevb. 1965UAself-proclaimed mayor of the city of Sloviansk in Eastern Ukraine
- Igor Ponomarevb. 1965RURussian diplomat
- Ilya Ponomarevb. 1975RURussian-Ukrainian politician and entrepreneur
- Ruslan Ponomariovb. 1983UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian chess player
- Anton Ponomarevb. 1988KZKazakh basketball 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 21 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 233 | #86,153 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 206 | #89,753 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 157 | #105,374 |
| 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
- How do you pronounce Ponomarev?
- A machine transcription gives /pənoʊmɑɹɛv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Ponomarev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Пономарев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Ponomarev?
- In the United States, the national register counted 206 people named Ponomarev in 2010, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
- How common is Ponomarev compared with other names?
- In Russia, Ponomarev is the 141st most common surname of 1,952,411 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/ponomarevThe 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, “Ponomarev” — the 141st most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.