Find out how popular the last name Litvinenko is in the United States and learn more about the meaning, history, and race and ethnic origin of people in America who are named Litvinenko.

Litvinenko, like all of the last names we have data for, is identified by the U.S. Census Bureau as a surname which has more than 100 occurrences in the United States in the Decennial Census survey. The most recent statistics we have for the Litvinenko surname is from the 2010 census data.

Popularity of Litvinenko in America

Litvinenko is the 98982nd most popular name in America based on the data we have collected from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The Litvinenko surname appeared 183 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 people would have the surname Litvinenko.

We can also compare 2010 data for Litvinenko to data from the previous census in 2000. The table below contains all of the statistics for both years in a side-by-side comparison.

The history of the last name Litvinenko

The surname Litvinenko is of Russian origin, derived from the word "litvin," which means "Lithuanian" in Russian. It likely originated during the period of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, which existed from the 13th to the 18th century and encompassed parts of modern-day Belarus, Ukraine, and Lithuania.

The name Litvinenko was likely given to individuals who came from Lithuania or had Lithuanian heritage. It is a patronymic surname, meaning it was derived from the father's name with the addition of the suffix "-enko," which is a common Russian surname ending.

One of the earliest recorded mentions of the surname Litvinenko can be found in the census records of the Russian Empire from the late 18th and early 19th centuries. These records often listed individuals by their last names and places of residence.

In the 16th century, during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, a Russian diplomat named Andrei Litvinenko was sent on a diplomatic mission to England. He is one of the earliest known individuals to bear this surname.

Another notable figure with the surname Litvinenko was Mikhail Litvinenko, a Russian military officer who fought in the Napoleonic Wars in the early 19th century. He was born in 1785 and died in 1842.

In the 20th century, Yuri Litvinenko was a Soviet mathematician and academic who made significant contributions to the field of functional analysis. He was born in 1908 and died in 1990.

Alexander Litvinenko, a former officer of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and a defector, is perhaps the most well-known individual with this surname in recent times. He was born in 1962 and died in 2006 after being poisoned with polonium-210, a highly radioactive substance.

While the surname Litvinenko has its origins in Russian and Lithuanian history, it has since spread to other parts of the world through migration and intermarriage.

Race and ethnic origin of people with the last name Litvinenko

We also have some data on the ancestry of people with the surname Litvinenko.

The below race categories are the modified race categories used in the Census Bureau's population estimates program. All people were categorized into six mutually exclusive racial and Hispanic origin groups:

1. White only
2. Black only
3. American Indian and Alaskan Native only
4. Asian and Pacific Islander only
5. Hispanic
6. Two or More Races

For the most recent 2010 census data, the race/ethnic origin breakdown for Litvinenko was:

Note: Any fields showing (S) means the data was suppressed for privacy so that the data does not in any way identify any specific individuals.

Since we have data from the previous census in 2000, we can also compare the values to see how the popularity of Litvinenko has changed in the 10 years between the two census surveys.

Data source

The last name data and ethnic breakdown of last names is sourced directly from the Decennial Census survey, conducted every 10 years by the United States Census Bureau.

The history and meaning of the name Litvinenko was researched and written by our team of onomatology and genealogy experts.

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