Zelenski
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/zɛlj̃ʃki/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated · uncertain
Zelenski is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 279 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2010. Recorded meaning: From Polish Żeleński.
- FIFinland1 in 159K(measured from records)
- CACanada≈1 in 430Kfew records
- USUnited States1 in 1.2M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 122 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 43K (inferred from the name graph)
279 people, 2010
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Zelenski
- Portuguese:/zɛlj̃ʃki/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Polish Żeleński.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zelenski is found
(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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 279 | 1 in 1.2M | 293 | Zelenski | 122 |
| BR Brazil | 144 | 1 in 1.5M | 144 | — | 2 |
| CA Canada | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 426K | — | Zelenski | 25 |
| FI Finland | 35 | 1 in 159K | 35 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Zelenski | 5 |
| EE Estonia | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 43K | listed | Zelenski | 10 |
279 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Oleksandr Zelenskyjb. 1947UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian mining scientist
- Igor Zelenskyb. 1969RUnot in their usual nameRussian ballet dancer
- Volodymyr Zelenskyyb. 1978UAnot in their usual namePresident of Ukraine since 2019
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
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?
- In Portuguese /zɛlj̃ʃki/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zelenski?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 279 people named Zelenski, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zelenski. After it come Brazil, Canada, Finland and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Zelenski?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zelenskiThe 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, “Zelenski” — ranked 64186th in the United States (Census Bureau). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.