Uljanov

surname · Latin script

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

Uljanov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 6Kas Ульянов(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 26Kas Ульянов
  • KZKazakhstan1 in 127Kas Ульянов

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 Uljanov 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)

≈24,000 named Ульянов, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
159 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 5.8M (inferred from the name graph)

China, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

UljanovLatin(measured from records)
УльяновCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ульянов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 3 more and Ul'Janov in MD Moldova.

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 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Uljanov 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 Uljanov is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#593≈24,000 est.≈1 in 6K—Ульянов159
UA Ukraine—≈1,700 est.≈1 in 26K—Ульянов31
BY Belarus—≈450 est.≈1 in 21K2Ульянов17
UZ Uzbekistan—≈450 est.≈1 in 68K—Ульянов3
CN China—≈240 est.≈1 in 5.8M—Ульянов2
KZ Kazakhstan—150as Ульянов1 in 127K1.1KУльянов37
MD Moldova—≈49 est.≈1 in 69K—Ul'Janov3

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 Kazakhs, by region of residence; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Uljanov is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Ul'Janov

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ulj́anov

  • Spanish name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Ul'Janov, Ulj́anov

9 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Ilya Ulyanov, b. 1831Alexander Ulyanov, b. 1866Vladimir Lenin, b. 1870Dmitry Ulyanov, b. 1874Nikolai Ulyanov, b. 1875Mikhail Ulyanov, b. 1927Pyotr Ulyanov, b. 1928Mikhail Ivanovich Ulyanov, b. 1958Dmitry Ulyanov, b. 1970Georgi Ulyanov, b. 1985
  • Ilya Ulyanovb. 1831RUnot in their usual nameRussian teacher, father of Vladimir Lenin (1831-1886)
  • Alexander Ulyanovb. 1866RUnot in their usual nameRussian revolutionary and activist (1866–1887)
  • Vladimir Leninb. 1870RUnot in their usual namefounding leader of the Soviet Union (1870–1924)
  • Dmitry Ulyanovb. 1874RUnot in their usual nameRussian revolutionary (1874-1943)
  • Nikolai Ulyanovb. 1875RUnot in their usual nameRussian artist (1877-1949)
  • Mikhail Ulyanovb. 1927RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actor, theatre and film director (1927-2007)
  • Pyotr Ulyanovb. 1928RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician (1928–2006)
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Ulyanovb. 1958RUnot in their usual nameRussian diplomat
  • Dmitry Ulyanovb. 1970RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
  • Georgi Ulyanovb. 1985RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Uljanov under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Uljanov have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 24 thousand people named Ульянов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Uljanov?
In Kazakhstan, the national register counted 150 people named Ульянов in 2021, about 1 in 127 thousand residents.
How common is Uljanov compared with other names?
In Russia, Uljanov is the 593rd most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Uljanov” — the 593rd most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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