Potiomkin
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Potiomkin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 27Kas Потемкин
- UAUkraine≈1 in 62Kas Потьомкін
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 Potiomkin itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3M (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 named Потемкин, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Потемкин in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 2 more and Потьомкін 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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Potiomkin 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 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Потемкин | 140 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Потьомкін | 15 |
| BY Belarus | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 2 | Потемкин | 14 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 304K | — | Потемкин | 5 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 209K | 183 | Потемкин | 25 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈37 est. | ≈1 in 161K | — | Потемкин | 8 |
| PL Poland | 17 | 1 in 2.3M | 9 | — | 1 |
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; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); 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)- Pyotr Potemkinb. 1617Russian nobleman and politician
- Alexander Potemkinb. 1673Russian nobleman
- Gregory Potyomkinb. 1739RUnot in their usual nameRussian military leader and politician (1739–1791)
- Pavel Potemkinb. 1743RURussian general
- Jakov Aleksejevič Potjomkinb. 1781RUnot in their usual nameRussian noble and military officer (1781-1831)
- Tatiana Borisovna Potemkinab. 1797RUnot in their usual nameRussian noblewoman
- Vladimir Potemkinb. 1874RUSoviet statesman, diplomat and historian (1874-1946)
- Peter Potemkineb. 1886FRnot in their usual nameRussian chess player (1886–1926)
- Lev Potyomkinb. 1905RUnot in their usual nameSoviet actor
- Károly Potemkinb. 1977HUfootball 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #146,138 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 8 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 8 | #155,795 |
Reference works 1
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
- In which country does Potiomkin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Потемкин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Potiomkin most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Potiomkin is densest in Poland — about 1 in 2.3 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Potiomkin?
- In Poland, the national register counted 17 people named Potiomkin in 2026, about 1 in 2.3 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/potiomkinThe 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, “Potiomkin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.