Telegin
surname · Latin script
Meaning: ‘Waggon’, given presumably as an occupational name to a carter
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʈɛləɡɪn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Telegin is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 20Kas Телегин(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 95Kas Телегин
- UAUkraine≈1 in 100Kas Телегін
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 Telegin 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 152K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 named Телегин, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, 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 Телегин in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UZ Uzbekistan and 1 more and Телегін in UA Ukraine.
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)
‘Waggon’, given presumably as an occupational name to a carter. Dim.: Russ.: Telezhkin (patr.). Var. (of 2): Tigg. Telemann see Terry
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Telegin 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 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Телегин | 140 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Телегін | 15 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 95K | 360 | Телегин | 30 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 152K | — | Телегин | 5 |
| BY Belarus | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 89K | — | Телегин | 13 |
| FI Finland | 30 | 1 in 186K | 30 | — | 1 |
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; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)
- Konstantin Teleginb. 1899RUSoviet general (1899–1981)
- Grigory Teleginb. 1914RUHero of the Soviet Union
- Boris Teleguineb. 1915RUnot in their usual nameSoviet actor
- Dmytro Teleginb. 1919UASoviet Ukrainian archeologist (1919–2011)
- Vasiliy Teleginb. 1936UASoviet track and field coach, trainer of Vladimir Yashchenko (1936-2005)
- Ilya Teleginb. 1981UZfootballer
- Ivan Teleginb. 1992RURussian ice hockey player
- Dmitri Teleginb. 1992RURussian association football player
- Sergueï Teleguineb. 2000RUnot in their usual nameRussian ice hockey player
- Yuliana Teleginab. 2002ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli rhythmic gymnast
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #38,457 |
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Where does the name Telegin come from?
- ‘Waggon’, given presumably as an occupational name to a carter. Dim.: Russ.: Telezhkin (patr.). Var. (of 2): Tigg. Telemann see Terry Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Telegin?
- A machine transcription gives /ʈɛləɡɪn/ (IPA) for Russian.
- What does the name Telegin mean?
- Recorded meaning: ‘Waggon’, given presumably as an occupational name to a carter.
- In which country does Telegin have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Телегин in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Telegin?
- In Finland, the national register counted 30 people named Telegin, about 1 in 186 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/teleginThe 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, “Telegin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.