Zelensky
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/zɪlɛnski/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zelensky is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.5M(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 9.7Kas Зеленський
- RURussia≈1 in 20Kas 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 Zelensky 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.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,200 named Зеленский, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sint Maarten, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
2 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Зеленский in RU Russia, KG Kyrgyzstan, BY Belarus and 1 more 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 across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zelensky 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 | — | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Зеленский | 142 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 9.7K | — | Зеленський | 37 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 87K | — | Зеленский | 5 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Зеленский | 14 |
| US United States | — | 219 | 1 in 1.5M | 219 | Zelensky | 107 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈80 est. | ≈1 in 75K | — | Зеленский | 10 |
| SX Sint Maarten | #117 | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | 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)
- Oleksandra Zelenskab. 1927UAnot in their usual nameSoviet political prisoner
- Viktor Zelenskyib. 1929UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian scientist
- Anne Zelenskyb. 1935FRFrench feminist author and activist (born 1935)
- Oleksandr Zelenskyjb. 1947UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian mining scientist
- Volodymyr Zelenskyyb. 1978UAnot in their usual namePresident of Ukraine since 2019
- Yevhenii Zelenskyib. 1991UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian military personnel
- Kyrylo Zelenskyib. 2013UAnot in their usual nameson of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine
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 8 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 219 | #85,357 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 207 | #84,310 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 187 | #102,571 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 common is the name Zelensky?
- In the United States, the national register counted 219 people named Zelensky in 2010, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Zelensky compared with other names?
- In Sint Maarten, Zelensky is the 117th most common surname of 335 surnames recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Zelensky?
- A machine transcription gives /zɪlɛnski/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Zelensky have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.2 thousand people named Зеленский in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zelenskyThe 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, “Zelensky” — the 117th most common surname in Sint Maarten. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.