Vovk
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Vovk is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country, where it is the 75th most common surname. Recorded meaning: wolf; Russianized into Volk.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 1.5Kas Вовк(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 16Kas Вовк
- SISlovenia1 in 1.8K
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 Vovk 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 141 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈29,000 named Вовк, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Вовк in UA Ukraine, RU Russia and Волк in BY Belarus.
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)
wolf; Russianized into Volk
Sources 1
- Russian Surnames
Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vovk 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.
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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
Vovk 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 English, A transliteration of the Ukrainian surname Вовк (Vovk).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Anton Vovkb. 1900SICatholic archbishop (1900–1963)
- Vira Vovkb. 1926BRUkrainian writer, critic, and translator (1926–2022)
- Melita Vovkb. 1928SIIllustrator and painter (1928-2020)
- Angelina Vovkb. 1942RUSoviet actress
- Vladimir Vovkb. 1960GBBritish computer scientist
- Raayb. 1984SInot in their usual nameSlovenian musician
- Marjetka Vovkb. 1984SISlovenian musician
- Yuri Vovkb. 1988UAUkrainian chess player
- Andrey Vovkb. 1991UAUkrainian chess player
- Valeriia Vovkmusician
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 30 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.4K | #2,177 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.2K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.2K | #2,518 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.2K | #127 |
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 Vovk mean, and where does it come from?
- wolf; Russianized into Volk Recorded by Russian Surnames.
- In which country does Vovk have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 29 thousand people named Вовк in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Vovk most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Vovk is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 1.8 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Vovk?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2,537 people named Vovk in 2026, about 1 in 15 thousand residents.
- How common is Vovk compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Vovk is the 75th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vovk?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vovkThe 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, “Vovk” — the 75th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.