Kotenko
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 8 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Kotenko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 47K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 163K
- ESSpain1 in 848K
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 Kotenko 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 142 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)
≈9,500 named Котенко, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Котенко in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
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 the surname Kotenko is found
(measured from records)Kotenko 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #343 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 4K | — | Котенко | 49 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Котенко | 142 |
| PL Poland | — | 822 | 1 in 47K | 454 | — | 1 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 35K | 318 | Котенко | 34 |
| US United States | — | 134 | 1 in 2.5M | 164 | Kotenko | 95 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈47 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 45 | Котенко | 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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); the ee-stat-nimed register. 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)- Serhii Kotenkob. 1967UAUkrainian soldier
- Artur Kotenkob. 1981EEEstonian footballer (born 1981)
- Ivan Kotenkob. 1985UAfootballer
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 8 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kotenko?
- Mondonomo estimates about 9.5 thousand people named Котенко in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kotenko?
- In Poland, the national register counted 822 people named Kotenko in 2026, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
- How common is Kotenko compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Kotenko is the 343rd most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Kotenko?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kotenkoThe 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, “Kotenko” — the 343rd most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.