Vilensky
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/vəɫɪnski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vilensky is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- ILIsrael1 in 12Kas וילנסקי(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 238Kas Виленский
- USUnited States1 in 494Kas Wilensky
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 Vilensky 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 115 (measured from records)
- 1 in 154K (inferred from the name graph)
715 named וילנסקי, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)6 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled וילנסקי in IL Israel, LV Latvia, BY Belarus and Виленский in 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)Vilensky 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | 715as וילנסקי | 1 in 12K | 715 | וילנסקי | 23 |
| US United States | 673as Wilensky | 1 in 494K | 748 | Vilensky | 115 |
| RU Russia | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 238K | — | Виленский | 98 |
| BY Belarus | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 56K | — | וילנסקי | 8 |
| LV Latvia | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | וילנסקי | 3 |
| UY Uruguay | 22 | 1 in 154K | 22 | — | 1 |
715 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)- Mikhail Muravyov-Vilenskyb. 1796RURussian imperial statesmen (1796-1866)
- Vladimir Vilensky-Sibiryakovb. 1888RURussian revolutionary
- Dmitry Vilenskyb. 1892UASoviet botanist and pedologist (1892–1960)
- Ilya Vilenskyb. 1896UASoviet composer (1896-1973)
- Zev Vilnayb. 1900ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli geographer (1900–1988)
- Boris Vilenskyb. 1903RUSoviet architect (1903-1970)
- Semyon Shubinb. 1908LVnot in their usual nameSoviet physicist (1908–1938)
- Semyon Vilenskyb. 1928RUSoviet author (1928–2016)
- Aleksandr Vilenskyb. 1955ILSoviet-Israeli film director
- Shira Vilenskyb. 1984ILIsraeli actress and model
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)11 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 168 | #106,096 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 161 | #115,151 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 152 | #108,153 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 22 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Vilensky?
- A machine transcription gives /vəɫɪnski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Vilensky have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 715 people named וילנסקי, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vilensky most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vilensky is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 154 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vilensky?
- In Uruguay, the national register counted 22 people named Vilensky, about 1 in 154 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Vilensky?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vilenskyThe 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, “Vilensky”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.