Zlatev
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Zlatev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 3.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 234K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 363K
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 Zlatev 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
- 84 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,900 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Златев in RU Russia, MK North Macedonia.
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)
Zlatev 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 | #214 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Zlatev | 84 |
| US United States | — | 107 | 1 in 3.1M | 107 | Zlatev | 60 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈53 est. | ≈1 in 2.7M | — | Златев | 16 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈32 est. | ≈1 in 2M | 5 | Zlatev | 22 |
| ES Spain | — | 28 | 1 in 1.8M | 28 | Zlatev | 16 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 14as Златев | 1 in 152K | 14 | Златев | 4 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 9 | 1 in 234K | 9 | — | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 363K | — | Zlatev | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 701K | listed | — | 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); State Statistical Office — living population names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Pencho Zlatevb. 1883BGPrime minister of Bulgaria (1883-1948)
- Zahari Zlatevb. 1939BGauthor, mathematician by education, born in Dobrich, Bulgaria, lives in Copenhagen, Denmark
- Tatjana Ban-Zlatevb. 1952SIresearcher
- Volodya Zlatevb. 1955BGbadminton executive and administrator
- Valentin Zlatevb. 1965BGBulgarian businessman
- Ivan Zlatevb. 1990BGBulgarian biathlete
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)
Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 107 | #152,628 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 28 | #66,388 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 28 | #65,950 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 9 | #20,688 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 5 | #230,412 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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
- In which country does Zlatev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.9 thousand people named Zlatev in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled zlatev.
- How common is the name Zlatev?
- In the United States, the national register counted 107 people named Zlatev in 2010, about 1 in 3.1 million residents.
- How common is Zlatev compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Zlatev is the 214th most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zlatev?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zlatevThe 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, “Zlatev” — the 214th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.