Shvets
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/ʃvəts/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Shvets is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country, where it is the 36th most common surname.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1.2Kas Швець(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 7.3Kas Швец
- PLPoland1 in 10K
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 Shvets 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈36,000 named Швець, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Швець in UA Ukraine and Швец in RU Russia.
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 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Shvets 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.
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: MVČR — living population register 2017; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Shvets is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, Ivashko Shvets, peasant. 1495.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Fedir Shvetsb. 1882UAUkrainian geologist, public activist, and statesman (1882-1940)
- Ivan Shvetsb. 1901UAUkrainian soviet scientist in thermal power engineering
- Lazar Shvetsb. 1939UARussian priest
- Yuri Shvetsb. 1953USformer KGB officer
- Oksana Shvetsb. 1955UAUkrainian actress
- Alexander Shvetsb. 1972BYBelarusian tennis player
- Mark Švetsb. 1976EEnot in their usual nameEstonian footballer (born 1976)
- Layahb. 1989UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian singer
- Anton Shvetsb. 1993UARussian footballer
- Alyona Shvetsb. 2001RURussian singer-songwriter, poet, composer and musician
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 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2K | #1,330 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.7K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.7K | #1,571 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 5 | #119,220 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 5 | #20,897 |
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 Shvets?
- A machine transcription gives /ʃvəts/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- In which country does Shvets have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Швець in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Shvets most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Shvets is densest in Poland — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Shvets?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,773 people named Shvets in 2026, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Shvets compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Shvets is the 36th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Shvets?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/shvetsThe 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, “Shvets” — the 36th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.