Kovalenko
surname · Latin script
Meaning: patronymic from koval ‘smith’
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kɐvaʎɪn̪kə/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from коваленко
Kovalenko is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 62nd most common surname.
- PLPoland1 in 5K(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 5.7Kfew records
- LVLatvia≈1 in 6Kfew records
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 Kovalenko 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)
- #493 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 named Коваленко, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Коваленко in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus.
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)patronymic from koval ‘smith’.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kovalenko 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 | #62 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Коваленко | 176 |
| UA Ukraine | #3 | ≈96,000 est. | ≈1 in 395 | — | Коваленко | 104 |
| PL Poland | — | 7,708 | 1 in 5K | 4.3K | Kovalenko | 3 |
| BY Belarus | #8 | ≈5,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | — | Коваленко | 30 |
| US United States | — | 1,014 | 1 in 328K | 1.3K | Kovalenko | 181 |
| EE Estonia | #284 | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.7K | 279 | Kovalenko | 15 |
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; 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)- Sergei Kovalenkob. 1947UAbasketball player (1947-2004)
- Aleksandr Kovalenkob. 1963BYathletics competitor
- Andrei Kovalenkob. 1970RURussian ice hockey player
- Andrei Kovalenkob. 1972RURussian footballer
- Vitaly Kovalenkob. 1974RURussian actor
- Valentin Kovalenkob. 1975UZUzbekistani footballer
- Dema Kovalenkob. 1977UAUkrainian footballer
- Igor Kovalenkob. 1988UAUkraine-born Latvian chess player
- Oleh Kovalenkob. 1988UAUkrainian footballer (born 1988)
- Viktor Kovalenkob. 1996UAUkrainian 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)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 4.3K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 4.3K | #486 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 3.4K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.4K | #661 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.3K | #20,413 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 1K | #24,629 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 676 | #32,161 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 279 | #139 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 257 | #186 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Kovalenko mean, and where does it come from?
- patronymic from koval ‘smith’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Kovalenko?
- In Russian /kɐvaʎɪn̪kə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Kovalenko have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 105 thousand people named Коваленко in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kovalenko most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kovalenko is densest in Poland — about 1 in 5.0 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kovalenko?
- In Poland, the national register counted 7,708 people named Kovalenko in 2026, about 1 in 5.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Kovalenko compared with other names?
- In Russia, Kovalenko is the 62nd most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kovalenkoThe 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, “Kovalenko” — the 62nd most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.