Zelenski

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/zəɫɛnski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Zelenski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Polish Żeleński.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1.2M(measured from records)
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 70K
  • BEBelgium≈1 in 123K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈1,100 people, est.

Sources
122 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 70K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Polish Żeleński.

Sources 1

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Zelenski 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.

Where Zelenski is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈1,100 est.≈1 in 1.3M—Zelenski2
US United States2791 in 1.2M293Zelenski122
BR Brazil1441 in 1.5M144—2
BE Belgium≈95 est.≈1 in 123K—Zelenski1
CA Canada≈84 est.≈1 in 451K—Zelenski25
FI Finland351 in 159K35—2
EE Estonia≈18 est.≈1 in 70KlistedZelenski10

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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Zelenski is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Guatemala

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Żeleński

  • French surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Żeleński

  • Croatian surname7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Bulgaria, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Зеленски

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Żeleński

  • Georgian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia

    Also written ზელენსკი

21 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18501900195020002050Yevgeny Zelensky, b. 1877Isaak Zelensky, b. 1890Oleksandr Zelenskyj, b. 1947Elena Zelenskaya, b. 1961Igor Zelensky, b. 1969Alexei Zelensky, b. 1971Mikhail Zelensky, b. 1975Volodymyr Zelenskyy, b. 1978Yelena Dreyden, b. 1981Kyrylo Zelenskyi, b. 2013

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)

FormalDear Zelenski,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 10 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Zelenski
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020293#71,696
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000290#64,186
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010279#70,208
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—144#47,933
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—35#31,183
US United Stateswru 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

What does the name Zelenski mean, and where does it come from?
From Polish Żeleński. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Zelenski?
A machine transcription gives /zəɫɛnski/ (IPA) for English.
In which country does Zelenski have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 thousand people named Zelenski in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zelenski.
How common is the name Zelenski?
In the United States, the national register counted 279 people named Zelenski in 2010, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

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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, “Zelenski”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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