Zhdanov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʒdənɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zhdanov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 3.7Kas Жданова(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 10Kas Жданова
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 26Kas Жданова
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 Zhdanov 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
- 159 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 28K (inferred from the name graph)
≈38,000 named Жданова, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Жданова in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 more and Жданов in CN China.
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(measured from records)
우크라이나 동남부, 아조프(Azov) 해에 면하여 있는 항구 도시.
Sources 1
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zhdanov 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 | #164 | ≈38,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Жданова | 159 |
| UA Ukraine | #518 | ≈4,300 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Жданова | 48 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Жданова | 8 |
| BY Belarus | #470 | ≈1,100 est. | ≈1 in 9K | 2 | Жданова | 18 |
| CN China | — | ≈960 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Жданов | 3 |
| PL Poland | — | 264as Zhdanova | 1 in 145K | 264 | Zhdanov | 5 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Жданова | 12 |
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: Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Andrei Zhdanovb. 1896UASoviet politician (1896-1948)
- Vladimir Zhdanovb. 1902UASoviet general (1902–1964)
- Viktor Zhdanovb. 1914UAvirologist (1914-1987)
- Yuri Zhdanovb. 1919RURussian chemist (1919-2006)
- Vasily Zhdanovb. 1963UARussian cyclist
- Ihor Zhdanovb. 1967UAUkrainian politician
- Dimitri Zhdanovb. 1969RURussian cyclist
- Aleksei Zhdanovb. 1982RURussian footballer
- Oleksandr Zhdanovb. 1984UAfootballer
- Ivan Zhdanovb. 1988RURussian politician and lawyer
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 9 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 243 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 243 | #13,459 |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Zhdanov?
- A machine transcription gives /ʒdənɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Zhdanov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 38 thousand people named Жданова in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Zhdanov?
- In Poland, the national register counted 264 people named Zhdanova in 2026, about 1 in 145 thousand residents.
- How common is Zhdanov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Zhdanov is the 164th most common surname of 1,952,411 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/zhdanovThe 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, “Zhdanov” — the 164th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.