Petkov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɛtkɒv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Petkov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 18th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Bulgarian Петков (Petkov).
- USUnited States1 in 622K(measured from records)
- BGBulgaria1 in 223as Петков
- RURussia≈1 in 166Kas Петков
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 Petkov 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 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 17K (inferred from the name graph)
31,243 named Петков, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova, 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 Петков in RU Russia, FI Finland, 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(measured from records)
Borrowed from Bulgarian Петков (Petkov).
Sources 1
Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Petkov 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 | #18 | 31,243as Петков | 1 in 223 | 31K | Petkov | 156 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 166K | — | Петков | 101 |
| ES Spain | — | 558 | 1 in 90K | 558 | Petkov | 39 |
| US United States | — | 535 | 1 in 622K | 548 | Petkov | 141 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Petkov | 19 |
| MD Moldova | #354 | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Petkov | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 108 | 1 in 52K | 108 | Петков | 5 |
| MK North Macedonia | #325 | 55as Петков | 1 in 39K | 55 | Петков | 12 |
31,243 people counted by NSI — most common surnames (annual press release), 2022, counting the spelling петков. 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: NSI — most common surnames (annual press release); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
- Dimitar Petkovb. 1858BGBulgarian politician (1858-1907)
- Krste Misirkovb. 1874BGnot in their usual namePhilologist, journalist, historian and ethnographer
- Nikola Petkovb. 1893BGBulgarian politician (1893-1947)
- Diyan Petkovb. 1967BGBulgarian footballer
- Petko Petkovb. 1968BGBulgarian association football player (born 1968)
- Milen Petkovb. 1974BGBulgarian footballer
- Ivaylo Petkovb. 1976BGBulgarian footballer
- Kiril Petkovb. 1980BGBulgarian politician, economist and entrepreneur
- Lukas Petkovb. 2000DEGerman-Bulgarian association football player
- Marin Petkovb. 2003BGBulgarian footballer
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 27 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 558 | #7,319 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 558 | #7,309 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 548 | #42,600 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 535 | #40,800 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 338 | #56,526 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 108 | #12,060 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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
- What does the name Petkov mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Bulgarian Петков (Petkov). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Petkov?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛtkɒv/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
- In which country does Petkov have the most bearers?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted about 31 thousand people named Петков, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Petkov?
- In Spain, the national register counted 558 people named Petkov, about 1 in 90 thousand residents.
- How common is Petkov compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Petkov is the 18th most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Petkov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/petkovThe 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, “Petkov” — the 18th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.