Names of Moldova

MD

e-services.md — living population register records Maria as the commonest given name in Moldova; the names that most distinguish Moldova from the rest of the world are Serghei, Ion and Alexandru.

Written in Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian.

Population
3.4M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
4.2K
BBuilt from 2 official registers, 4,229 name forms in our corpus, 33 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of Moldova are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Moldova included.

Moldovan girl and boy names

The commonest names given to girls and to boys, as ASP Moldova — Nou-Născuți (Newborn Name Statistics) published them for 2024. The full register tables, with their counts, are further down.

How names work in Moldova

6 naming traditions are in use in Moldova, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Moldova

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
e-services.md — living population register — 11,415 given names counted over residents.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Maria113K—
2Ion100K2
3Elena97K—
4Tatiana97K60
5Natalia85K22
6Andrei72K7
7Mihail68K—
8Serghei65K4
9Victor59K24
10Alexandru59K3
11Valentina58K57
12Olga57K43
13Ivan55K45
14Alexandr53K6
15Svetlana52K61
16Vasile50K8
17Vladimir47K12
18Ana47K—
19Irina46K34
20Ecaterina44K42

Where the two lists disagree

22 of e-services.md — living population register's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

e-services.md — living population registerAcross all recordsmaria: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. marianot rankedion: 2 → 22. ion2elena: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. elenanot rankedtatiana: 4 → 60 · ranks lower across all records4. tatiana60natalia: 5 → 22 · ranks lower across all records5. natalia22andrei: 6 → 76. andrei7mihail: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. mihailnot rankedserghei: 8 → 48. serghei4victor: 9 → 24 · ranks lower across all records9. victor24alexandru: 10 → 3 · ranks higher across all records10. alexandru3valentina: 11 → 57 · ranks lower across all records11. valentina57olga: 12 → 43 · ranks lower across all records12. olga43ivan: 13 → 45 · ranks lower across all records13. ivan45alexandr: 14 → 6 · ranks higher across all records14. alexandr6svetlana: 15 → 61 · ranks lower across all records15. svetlana61vasile: 16 → 8 · ranks higher across all records16. vasile8vladimir: 17 → 12 · ranks higher across all records17. vladimir12ana: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. ananot rankedirina: 19 → 34 · ranks lower across all records19. irina34ecaterina: 20 → 42 · ranks lower across all records20. ecaterina42nicolae: 21 → 14 · ranks higher across all records21. nicolae14igor: 22 → 27 · ranks lower across all records22. igor27gheorghe: 23 → 15 · ranks higher across all records23. gheorghe15anastasia: 24 → 46 · ranks lower across all records24. anastasia46sergiu: 25 → 9 · ranks higher across all records25. sergiu9
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
e-services.md — living population register on the left; every record we hold for Moldova on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Moldova

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Moldova holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

MoldovaSergheiIonAlexandruSergiuAndreiVasileIurieValeriuNicolaeGheorgheNataliaIgorDumitruVictorAnatoliePetruVeaceslavVitalieConstantin
Sized by how much of the difference between Moldova's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Names in Moldova are written in Latin (90%), Hebrew (6%) and Cyrillic (4%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Moldovagiven name(measured from records)
Străinsurname(measured from records)
Iongiven name(measured from records)
Alexandrugiven name(measured from records)
Sergheigiven name(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Moldova, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Moldova?
Maria, according to e-services.md — living population register, with 113,244 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Moldova?
Because they count different people. e-services.md — living population register counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Maria. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Ion. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Moldova?
No — 6 are described on this page (Romanian, Russian, Ossetian, Uzbek and Russian, Chechen and Caucasian, Circassian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Moldova”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/MD (data snapshot 2026-10-12). Official figures from e-services.md — living population register.