Slavov

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/sleɪvɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Slavov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 73rd most common surname.

rarermore common
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 2K(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 118Kas Славов
  • RURussia≈1 in 476Kas Славов

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 Slavov 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.

Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,500 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
112 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)

Bulgaria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

SlavovLatin(measured from records)
СлавовCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Славов in UA Ukraine, 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 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Slavov 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.

Where Slavov is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#73≈3,500 est.≈1 in 2K—Slavov112
UA Ukraine—≈370 est.≈1 in 118K—Славов18
RU Russia—≈300 est.≈1 in 476K—Славов79
US United States—1471 in 2.3M171Slavov77
ES Spain—1211 in 413K121Slavov22
RS Serbia—≈59 est.≈1 in 118K—Slavov5
NO Norway—421 in 130K42Slavov6
MD Moldova—≈36 est.≈1 in 92K—Slavov3

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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population). 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)

196019802000Ventsislav Slavov, b. 1963Borislav Slavov, b. 1973Peter Slavov, b. 1975Svetoslav Nanev Slavov, b. 2000Chavdar Slavov, b. 2000

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)

FormalУважаеми(а) Slavov,Dear Slavov, (English)
InformalУважаеми(а) Slavov,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 21 sources across 13 countries.

Official registers attesting Slavov
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020171#109,993
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010147#118,185
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—121#24,076
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—121#23,971
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—42#29,444
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Slavov?
A machine transcription gives /sleɪvɑv/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
In which country does Slavov have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.5 thousand people named Slavov in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled slavov.
How common is the name Slavov?
In the United States, the national register counted 147 people named Slavov in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
How common is Slavov compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Slavov is the 73rd most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.

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The 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, “Slavov” — the 73rd most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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