Zelenskij
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Zelenskij is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Zelenskij is also written Зеленский in Cyrillic.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 9.5Kas Зеленський(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 19Kas Зеленский
- BYBelarus≈1 in 24Kfew recordsas Зеленский
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 Zelenskij 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,700 named Зеленский, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sint Maarten, est., as Zelensky
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Zelenskij in other scripts: Cyrillic and Latin
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Зеленский in RU Russia, BY Belarus, UZ Uzbekistan, Zelensky in US United States, SX Sint Maarten and Зеленський in UA Ukraine.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Zelenskij is found
(measured from records)Zelenskij 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | — | ≈7,700 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Зеленский | 142 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Зеленський | 37 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Зеленский | 5 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈380 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Зеленский | 14 |
| US United States | — | 219as Zelensky | 1 in 1.5M | 219 | Zelensky | 107 |
| SX Sint Maarten | #117 | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 2K | — | Zelensky | 1 |
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. 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)- Isaak Zelenskyb. 1890RUpolitician (1890-1938)
- Elena Zelenskayab. 1961RUnot in their usual nameRussian soprano singer
- Igor Zelenskyb. 1969RURussian ballet dancer
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)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Zelenskij?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.7 thousand people named Зеленский in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Belarus and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Zelenskij?
- In the United States, the national register counted 219 people named Zelensky in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Zelenskij compared with other names?
- In Sint Maarten, Zelenskij is the 117th most common surname of 335 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/zelenskijThe 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, “Zelenskij” — the 117th most common surname in Sint Maarten. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.