Smirnow
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈsmir.nɔf/(recorded in a dictionary) Polish · from Wiktionary
Smirnow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Russian Смирно́в (Smirnóv).
- PLPoland1 in 123K(measured from records)
- DEGermany≈1 in 280Kfew records
- FRFrance≈1 in 1.6M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). 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.
- Poland (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- 1 in 123K (inferred from the name graph)
311 people, 2026
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Transliteration of Russian Смирно́в (Smirnóv).
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Smirnow is found
(measured from records)Smirnow 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | 311 | 1 in 123K | 165 | Smirnow | 1 |
| DE Germany | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 282K | — | Smirnow | 52 |
| US United States | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 2.9M | listed | Smirnow | 90 |
| FR France | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | 6 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | ≈35 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Smirnow | 1 |
| CA Canada | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Smirnow | 21 |
| AU Australia | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 1.6M | — | Smirnow | 15 |
311 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames), 2026. 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)- Vladimir Smirnovb. 1887RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician (1887-1974)
- Igor Smirnovb. 1941RUnot in their usual namefirst President of Transnistria
- Stanislav Smirnovb. 1970RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Smirnow mean, and where does it come from?
- Transliteration of Russian Смирно́в (Smirnóv). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Smirnow?
- In Polish /ˈsmir.nɔf/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Smirnow?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 311 people named Smirnow, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled smirnow. After it come Germany, United States, France and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Smirnow most common?
- Smirnow is densest in Poland, where the national register counts about 1 in 123 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Smirnow?
- In Poland, the national register counted 311 people named Smirnow in 2026, about 1 in 123 thousand 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/smirnowThe 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, “Smirnow”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.