Vlahov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: de Vlah com o sufixo eslavo -ov
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/vɫɐxof/(recorded in a dictionary) Bulgarian · from Wiktionary · read from влахов
Vlahov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 11K(measured from records)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 11K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 290Kfew records
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 Vlahov itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 56 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈590 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Влахов 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
(measured from records)de Vlah com o sufixo eslavo -ov.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Vlahov 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #792 | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Vlahov | 44 |
| HR Croatia | — | 394 | 1 in 11K | 394 | Vlahov | 39 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈93 est. | ≈1 in 293K | — | Vlahov | 43 |
| US United States | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 4.2M | listed | Vlahov | 56 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈54 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | — | Влахов | 54 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | Vlahov | 3 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 164K | — | Vlahov | 5 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Vlahov is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Vlacci
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Dimitar Vlahovb. 1878BGOttoman, Bulgarian, and Yugoslav politician (1878–1953)
- Andrew Vlahovb. 1969AUAustralian basketball player (born 1969)
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 394 | #1,931 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 348 | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- What does the name Vlahov mean, and where does it come from?
- de Vlah com o sufixo eslavo -ov. Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos.
- How do you pronounce Vlahov?
- In Bulgarian /vɫɐxof/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Vlahov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 585 people named Vlahov in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vlahov.
- Where is Vlahov most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vlahov is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vlahov?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 394 people named Vlahov in 2021, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Vlahov compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Vlahov is the 792nd most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vlahovThe 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, “Vlahov” — the 792nd most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.