Shapoval
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ʃɐpɔʋɑɫ/(machine-generated) Ukrainian · model-generated · read from шаповал
Shapoval is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Ukrainian Шаповал (Šapoval), from Ukrainian шаповал (šapoval, “capmaker”).
- PLPoland1 in 23K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 59K
- DKDenmark1 in 255K
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 Shapoval 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 138 (measured from records)
- 1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈19,000 named Шаповал, 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 Шаповал in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
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)- UkrainianШаповалŠapoval(measured from records)
- Ukrainianшаповалšapoval“capmaker”(measured from records)
From Ukrainian Шаповал (Šapoval), from Ukrainian шаповал (šapoval, “capmaker”).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Shapoval 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #135 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Шаповал | 51 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Шаповал | 138 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,699 | 1 in 23K | 916 | — | 1 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Шаповал | 14 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 80K | 103 | Шаповал | 29 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 47 | Shapoval | 9 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Shapoval is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, "hat-maker."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In English, A surname from Ukrainian.; A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Шаповал (Šapoval)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Mykyta Shapovalb. 1882UAUkrainian sociologist (1882-1932)
- Mykola Shapovalb. 1886UAUkrainian general
- Youla Chapovalb. 1919FRnot in their usual nameUkrainian-French painter (1919–1951)
- Volodymyr Shapovalb. 1934UAUkrainian Soviet politician and activist
- Oleksandr Shapovalb. 1975UAUkrainian ballet dancer and choreographer (1975–2022)
- Maksim Shapovalb. 1978UAUkrainian military intelligence officer (1978-2017)
- Viktor Shapovalb. 1979UAUkrainian high jumper
- Serhiy Shapovalb. 1990UAUkrainian association football player
- Illya I. ShapovalUSUkrainian particle physicist
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)15 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 916 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 916 | #3,429 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 783 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 783 | #3,969 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 47 | #2,076 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 38 | #2,718 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Shapoval mean, and where does it come from?
- From Ukrainian Шаповал (Šapoval), from Ukrainian шаповал (šapoval, “capmaker”). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Shapoval?
- In Ukrainian /ʃɐpɔʋɑɫ/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Shapoval have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 19 thousand people named Шаповал in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shapoval most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shapoval is densest in Poland — about 1 in 23 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shapoval?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,699 people named Shapoval in 2026, about 1 in 23 thousand residents.
- How common is Shapoval compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Shapoval is the 135th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shapovalThe 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, “Shapoval” — the 135th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.