Family name Gadzhyev (Гаджиев 
, Гаджыев , Gadzhyev ) , throughout the world, is a common surname. The cognomen Gadzhyev is characteristic of Azerbaijan, where it is quite a common surname, Russia, and Kyrgyzstan, where it is quite a rare surname. Not in comparison with a country's population, it most frequently occurs in Russia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan. Much less frequently, Gadzhyev is the forename as well as the last name.