Aliev
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from ʿAlī; also Mohammed's son-in-law and the fourth Caliph
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/əɫiv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Aliev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Azerbaijan it is the 5th most common surname.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 617(inferred from the name graph)
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 1.4K
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 682as Алиев
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 Aliev 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 617 (inferred from the name graph)
≈83,000 named Алиев, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Алиев in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, AZ Azerbaijan and 3 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)
from ʿAlī; also Mohammed's son-in-law and the fourth Caliph
Sources 1
- Russian Surnames
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Aliev 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 | #153 | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Алиев | 170 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #109 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Алиев | 29 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #13 | 15,030as Алиев | 1 in 1.3K | 15K | Алиев | 46 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #52 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 682 | — | Алиев | 15 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #9 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 617 | — | Алиев | 17 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #5 | ≈6,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Алиев | 66 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,158 | 1 in 33K | 1.1K | — | 2 |
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; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)
- Aziz Aliyevb. 1897AMnot in their usual namePolitician, scientist (1897–1962)
- Heydar Alievb. 1923AZ3rd President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (1923–2003)
- Fazu Aliyevab. 1932RUnot in their usual nameRussian poet (1932–2016)
- Mukhu Aliyevb. 1940RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Arif Aliyevb. 1960RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer
- Ilham Aliyevb. 1961AZnot in their usual namePresident of Azerbaijan since 2003
- Rakhat Alievb. 1962KZKazakh economist and politician (1962–2015)
- Oleksandr Aliyevb. 1985RUnot in their usual nameUkrainian footballer
- Haji Aliyevb. 1991AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani wrestler (born 1991)
- Alibek Alievb. 1996RUSwedish Russian association football player
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)
Attested in 23 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 1.1K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 1.1K | #2,598 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 11 | #124,670 |
Reference works 3
- 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 Aliev mean, and where does it come from?
- from ʿAlī; also Mohammed's son-in-law and the fourth Caliph Recorded by Russian Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Aliev?
- A machine transcription gives /əɫiv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Aliev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 83 thousand people named Алиев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Aliev?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,158 people named Aliev in 2026, about 1 in 33 thousand residents.
- How common is Aliev compared with other names?
- In Russia, Aliev is the 153rd 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/alievThe 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, “Aliev” — the 153rd most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.