Vinokur
surname · Latin script
Meaning: distiller, Russ, vinokur (from vino wine, earlier used also of spirits (L vtnum, borrowed by way of a Gmc intermediary; cf
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/vɪnəkɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vinokur is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 887K(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 92Kas Винокур
- RURussia≈1 in 271Kas Винокур
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 Vinokur 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 171K (inferred from the name graph)
≈520 named Винокур, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Israel, 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 Винокур in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, IL Israel and 1 more.
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)
distiller, Russ, vinokur (from vino wine, earlier used also of spirits (L vtnum, borrowed by way of a Gmc intermediary; cf. Vinogradov) + kurit to distil (in mod. Russ, ‘to smoke’)).
Sources 1
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vinokur 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 | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 271K | — | Винокур | 99 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Винокур | 29 |
| US United States | 375 | 1 in 887K | 375 | Vinokur | 140 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 411K | — | Vinokur | 9 |
| BY Belarus | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 142K | — | Винокур | 14 |
| IL Israel | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 171K | — | Винокур | 14 |
| CR Costa Rica | 30as Vinocour | 1 in 170K | 30 | — | — |
| 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; 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)
- Grigori Ossipovitch Vinokourb. 1896PLnot in their usual nameRussian linguist (1896–1947)
- Tatiana Vinokurb. 1924RUSoviet philologist (1924–1992)
- Vladimir Vinokurb. 1948RUSoviet and Russian actor and comedian
- Tania Vinokurb. 1982ILIsraeli singer
- Val VinokurUSAmerican translator
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 14 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 375 | #54,864 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 354 | #54,522 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 339 | #63,550 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #38,816 |
| 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
- Where does the name Vinokur come from?
- distiller, Russ, vinokur (from vino wine, earlier used also of spirits (L vtnum, borrowed by way of a Gmc intermediary; cf. Vinogradov) + kurit to distil (in mod. Russ, ‘to smoke’)). Recorded by The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles.
- How do you pronounce Vinokur?
- A machine transcription gives /vɪnəkɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Vinokur mean?
- Recorded meaning: distiller, Russ, vinokur (from vino wine, earlier used also of spirits (L vtnum, borrowed by way of a Gmc intermediary; cf.
- In which country does Vinokur have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 523 people named Винокур in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Vinokur?
- In the United States, the national register counted 375 people named Vinokur in 2010, about 1 in 887 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vinokurThe 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, “Vinokur”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.