Kuznetsov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kuznetsov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 8th most common surname. In English, recorded as A transliteration of the Russian surname Кузнецов (Kuznecov).
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 7.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 360K
- RURussia≈1 in 526as Кузнецов
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 Kuznetsov 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)
- #334 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 203 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈270,000 named Кузнецов, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Кузнецов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KG Kyrgyzstan and 2 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(measured from records)
patronymic form of an occupational name meaning ‘smith’ in Russian.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Kuznetsov is read(measured from records)
Kuznetsov is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Russian39%
kuznets smith (from ORuss. kuzn forged work, from 358 Kyte Kviat kovat to forge, ultimately a cogn. of OHG houwan to hew; cf. Hauer). Dim.: Pol.: Kuznik. Kviat see Kwiatek Kviatkovsky see Kwiatkowski Kvist see Qvist
as a nameThe Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- Ukrainian30%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Kuznetsov in Ukrainian.
- English10%
A transliteration of the Russian surname Кузнецов (Kuznecov).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kuznetsov 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 | #8 | ≈270,000 est. | ≈1 in 526 | — | Кузнецов | 197 |
| UA Ukraine | #285 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Кузнецов | 68 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Кузнецов | 11 |
| BY Belarus | #16 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 6.3K | — | Кузнецов | 27 |
| US United States | — | 924 | 1 in 360K | 1.1K | Kuznetsov | 203 |
| EE Estonia | #63 | 895 | 1 in 1.4K | 895 | Kuznetsov | 40 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #61 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Кузнецов | 13 |
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; Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Kuznetsov is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
patronymic form of an occupational name meaning ‘smith’ in Russian.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nikolai Dmitriyevich Kuznetsovb. 1850UARussian painter (1850-1929)
- Fyodor Isidorovich Kuznetsovb. 1898BYSoviet general (1898–1961)
- Vasily Kuznetsovb. 1901RUSoviet politician (1901-1990)
- Nikolay Gerasimovich Kuznetsovb. 1904RUSoviet admiral (1904–1974)
- Nikolai Kuznetsovb. 1911RUSoviet partisan and intelligence agent
- Yury Kuznetsovb. 1946RUSoviet and Russian actor
- Oleg Kuznetsovb. 1963UAUkrainian footballer
- Dmitri Kuznetsovb. 1965RURussian footballer (born 1965)
- Agniya Kuznetsovab. 1985RUnot in their usual nameRussian actress
- Alexander Kuznetsovb. 1992UARussian actor (born 1992)
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 29 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 1.1K | #23,700 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 924 | #26,422 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 895 | #16 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 895 | #16 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 518 | #39,885 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 27 | #4,081 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- 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)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- Where does the name Kuznetsov come from?
- patronymic form of an occupational name meaning ‘smith’ in Russian. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What does the name Kuznetsov mean?
- In English, A transliteration of the Russian surname Кузнецов (Kuznecov).
- In which country does Kuznetsov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 270 thousand people named Кузнецов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kuznetsov most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kuznetsov is densest in Estonia — about 1 in 1.4 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kuznetsov?
- In the United States, the national register counted 924 people named Kuznetsov in 2010, about 1 in 360 thousand residents.
- How common is Kuznetsov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Kuznetsov is the 8th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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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, “Kuznetsov” — the 8th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.