Dobreva
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Dobreva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 92nd most common surname.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 1.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 459Kas Добрева
- SESweden1 in 208K
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 Dobreva 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.
- Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 89 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈6,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Добрева in RU Russia.
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 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dobreva 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #92 | ≈6,400 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Dobreva | 89 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 459K | — | Добрева | 82 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 406K | — | Dobreva | 48 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 323K | — | Dobreva | 13 |
| ES Spain | — | 157 | 1 in 319K | 157 | Dobreva | 26 |
| SE Sweden | — | 49 | 1 in 208K | 49 | Dobreva | 9 |
| GR Greece | — | ≈42 est. | ≈1 in 250K | — | Dobreva | 1 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 15as Добрева | 1 in 142K | 15 | — | 2 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Dobreva | 4 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); State Statistical Office — living population names. 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)
Dobreva 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.
In Russian, "good."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Nikolina Dobrevab. 1924BGBulgarian businesswoman, tobacco engineer, member of Central Committee of Bulgarian Communist Party (1924–?)
- Binka Dobrevab. 1960BGBulgarian musician
- Maya Ivanovab. 1983BGnot in their usual namebadminton player
- Nina Dobrevb. 1989BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian-Canadian actress
- Milena DobrevaBulgarian researcher
- Tanya DobrevaBGBulgarian pop-folk musician
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 157 | #19,850 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 157 | #19,795 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 49 | #12,885 |
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
- In which country does Dobreva have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 6.4 thousand people named Dobreva in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dobreva.
- How common is the name Dobreva?
- In Spain, the national register counted 157 people named Dobreva, about 1 in 319 thousand residents.
- How common is Dobreva compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Dobreva is the 92nd most common surname of 67,606 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/dobrevaThe 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, “Dobreva” — the 92nd most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.