Trifonow
surname · Latin script
Trifonow is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Bulgaria it is the 94th most common surname.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 2.4Kas Trifonov(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 6.3Kas Трифонов
- UAUkraine≈1 in 34Kas Трифонов
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 Trifonow 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
- 153 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 named Трифонов, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est., as Trifonov
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Трифонов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 2 more and Trifonov in BG Bulgaria, US United States.
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 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Trifonow 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 | #636 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Трифонов | 153 |
| BG Bulgaria | #94 | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Trifonov | 97 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Трифонов | 29 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈580 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Трифонов | 15 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 76K | — | Трифонов | 4 |
| US United States | — | 141as Trifonov | 1 in 2.4M | 157 | Trifonov | 77 |
| EE Estonia | #830 | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Трифонов | 7 |
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. 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 Trifonovb. 1936RURussian geologist
- Edward Trifonovb. 1937RUMolecular biophysicist
- Gennady Trifonovb. 1944RURussian writer and poet (1945-2011)
- Filip Trifonovb. 1947BGBulgarian actor (1947-2021)
- Aleksandr Trifonovb. 1950RURussian canoeist
- Manol Genovb. 1960BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian politician (born 1960)
- Slavi Trifonovb. 1966BGBulgarian musician and actor
- Aleksandr Trifonovb. 1975RU1975-
- Rumen Trifonovb. 1985BGBulgarian footballer
- Trifon Trifonovb. 1985BGBulgarian astronomer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 4 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Trifonow have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Трифонов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Trifonow?
- In the United States, the national register counted 141 people named Trifonov in 2010, about 1 in 2.4 million residents.
- How common is Trifonow compared with other names?
- In Russia, Trifonow is the 636th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Trifonow?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/trifonowThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Trifonow” — the 636th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.