Yankov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/jəŋkɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Yankov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common surname.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 1.9K(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 78Kas Янков
- RURussia≈1 in 90Kas Янков
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 Yankov 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 121 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈3,600 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Янков in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus, Jankov in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, Јанков in MK North Macedonia and Iankov in DE Germany.
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 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Yankov 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 | #52 | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Yankov | 99 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 90K | — | Янков | 121 |
| RS Serbia | #557 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | — | Jankov | 29 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈560 est. | ≈1 in 78K | — | Янков | 19 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 302K | — | Iankov | 18 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Янков | 15 |
| HR Croatia | — | 180as Jankov | 1 in 23K | 180 | Jankov | 35 |
| ES Spain | — | 169 | 1 in 296K | 169 | Yankov | 25 |
| MK North Macedonia | #536 | 58as Јанков | 1 in 37K | 58 | Јанков | 10 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
- Yakov Yankovb. 1860BGBulgarian military personnel
- Aleksandăr Jankovb. 1924BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian jurist (1924-2019)
- Yanko Yankovb. 1924BGBulgarian actor
- Yordan Yankovb. 1936BGBulgarian journalist
- Zlatko Yankovb. 1966BGBulgarian footballer
- Petko Yankovb. 1977BGBulgarian sprinter
- Radoslav Yankovb. 1990BGBulgarian snowboarder
- Risto Jankovb. 1998MKnot in their usual nameMacedonian association football player
- Dominik Yankovb. 2000BGBulgarian association football player
- Yavor Yankovb. 2001BGbadminton player
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 21 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 169 | #18,755 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 169 | #18,696 |
Reference works 1
- 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 Yankov?
- A machine transcription gives /jəŋkɑv/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
- In which country does Yankov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 3.6 thousand people named Yankov in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled yankov.
- How common is the name Yankov?
- In Spain, the national register counted 169 people named Yankov, about 1 in 296 thousand residents.
- How common is Yankov compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Yankov is the 52nd 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/yankovThe 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, “Yankov” — the 52nd most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.