Prohorov
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Prohorov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- BYBelarus≈1 in 3.9Kfew recordsas Прохоров(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 4Kas Прохоров
- UAUkraine≈1 in 13Kas Прохоров
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 Prohorov 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
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 named Прохоров, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Tajikistan, 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 Прохоров in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 2 more and Prokhorov in PL Poland.
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 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Prohorov 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 | #331 | ≈36,000 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Прохоров | 163 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Прохоров | 41 |
| BY Belarus | #500 | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 3.9K | — | Прохоров | 19 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Прохоров | 6 |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Прохоров | 3 |
| MD Moldova | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 8K | — | Prohorov | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 199as Prokhorov | 1 in 192K | 197 | Prokhorov | 4 |
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). 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)- Aleksandr Prokhorovb. 1916RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian physicist (1916-2002)
- Violetta Elvinb. 1924RUnot in their usual nameRussian ballet dancer
- Yury Prokhorovb. 1929RUnot in their usual nameSoviet mathematician (1929-2013)
- Gelian Prokhorovb. 1936RUnot in their usual nameRussian scientist
- Aleksandr Prokhorovb. 1946BYnot in their usual nameSoviet footballer (1946–2005)
- Anatoly Prokhorovb. 1948RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian film and television producer (1948–2020)
- Irina Prokhorovab. 1956RUnot in their usual nameRussian historian & critic (born 1956)
- Mikhail Prokhorovb. 1965RUnot in their usual nameRussian entrepreneur and politician (born 1965)
- Vitali Prokhorovb. 1966RUnot in their usual nameice hockey player
- Yelena Prokhorovab. 1978RUnot in their usual nameRussian athlete
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)3 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 | 6 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 6 | #185,930 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Prohorov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Прохоров in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Prohorov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 199 people named Prokhorov in 2026, about 1 in 192 thousand residents.
- How common is Prohorov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Prohorov is the 331st 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/prohorovThe 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, “Prohorov” — the 331st most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.