Zhivkov
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Todor, president, Bulgaria
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈʒɪvkɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zhivkov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 9.6K(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 544K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 12Kas Živkov
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 Zhivkov 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 9.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈730 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, 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 Živkov in RS Serbia, HR Croatia, Zivkov in DE Germany, AT Austria and Живков in RU Russia.
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)
Todor, president, Bulgaria
Sources 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Zhivkov 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #252 | ≈730 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Zhivkov | 64 |
| RS Serbia | #640 | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Živkov | 22 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Живков | 12 |
| ES Spain | — | 92 | 1 in 544K | 92 | Zhivkov | 10 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈46 est. | ≈1 in 1.7M | — | Zivkov | 25 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Zivkov | 8 |
| HR Croatia | — | 26as Živkov | 1 in 163K | 26 | Živkov | 6 |
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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
- Georgi Zhivkovb. 1844BGBulgarian politician
- Nikola Zhivkovb. 1847BGBulgarian educator
- Todor Zhivkovb. 1911BGformer General Secretary of the Bulgarian Communist Party
- Todor Iv. Zhivkovb. 1938BGBulgarian folklorist (1938–2001)
- Vladimir Zhivkovb. 1952BGBulgarian politician (1952-2021)
- Christo Schiwkowb. 1975BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian actor (1975-2023)
- Alexandar M. ZhivkovBGresearcher
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 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 92 | #29,292 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 92 | #29,046 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Zhivkov mean, and where does it come from?
- Todor, president, Bulgaria Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- How do you pronounce Zhivkov?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈʒɪvkɑv/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
- In which country does Zhivkov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 728 people named Zhivkov in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zhivkov.
- How common is the name Zhivkov?
- In Spain, the national register counted 92 people named Zhivkov, about 1 in 544 thousand residents.
- How common is Zhivkov compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Zhivkov is the 252nd most common surname of 67,606 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/zhivkovThe 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, “Zhivkov” — the 252nd most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.