Beliaev
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries
/bʲɪˈlʲæ(j)ɪf/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from беляев
Beliaev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 420Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ESSpain1 in 1.5M
- TRTürkiye≈1 in 16M
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 Beliaev itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 424K (inferred from the name graph)
≈61,000 named Беляев, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Uzbekistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Беляев in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 3 more, Беляєв in UA Ukraine and Belyayev in ES Spain.
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 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Beliaev 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 | #175 | ≈61,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Беляев | 175 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 42K | — | Беляєв | 28 |
| BY Belarus | #550 | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Беляев | 20 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #601 | 254as Беляев | 1 in 75K | 2.5K | Беляев | 38 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Беляев | 9 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 424K | — | Беляев | 6 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈59 est. | ≈1 in 23K | listed | Беляев | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 34 | 1 in 1.5M | 34 | Belyayev | 10 |
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 Kazakhs, by region of residence; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)- Mitrofan Belyayevb. 1836RUnot in their usual nameRussian publisher, philanthropist, violist and businessman (1836–1903)
- Mikhail Belyaevb. 1863RURussian statesman (1863–1918)
- Alexander Belyayevb. 1884RUnot in their usual nameSoviet writer (1884–1942)
- E. A. Belyaevb. 1895RUIslamic scholar (1895–1964)
- Nikolay Ilyich Belyaevb. 1903RUSoviet politician (1903-1966)
- Dmitry Konstantinovich Belyayevb. 1917RUnot in their usual nameRussian biologist (1917–1985)
- Spartak Belyaevb. 1923RURussian physicist (1923–2017)
- Pavel Belyayevb. 1925RUnot in their usual nameSoviet cosmonaut (1925-1970)
- Yury Belyayevb. 1947RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actor
- Sergey Belyayevb. 1960KZnot in their usual nameKazakhstani shooter (1960–2020)
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)7 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 34 | #58,750 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 34 | #57,670 |
Reference works 1
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
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
- How do you pronounce Beliaev?
- In Russian /bʲɪˈlʲæ(j)ɪf/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Beliaev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 61 thousand people named Беляев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Beliaev?
- In Spain, the national register counted 34 people named Beliaev, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
- How common is Beliaev compared with other names?
- In Russia, Beliaev is the 175th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/beliaevThe 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, “Beliaev” — the 175th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.