Kataiev
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kataiev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 96Kas Катаєв(inferred from the name graph)
- PLPoland1 in 1.5M
- ILIsrael≈1 in 474Kas Katayev
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 Kataiev 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 49 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.5M (inferred from the name graph)
≈460 named Катаєв, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Katayev in US United States, KZ Kazakhstan, IL Israel and 1 more and Катаєв in UA Ukraine.
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 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kataiev 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Катаєв | 23 |
| US United States | ≈84 est. | ≈1 in 4M | listed | Katayev | 49 |
| PL Poland | 26 | 1 in 1.5M | 26 | — | 1 |
| IL Israel | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 474K | — | Katayev | 3 |
| NL Netherlands | ≈15 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Katayev | 1 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | — | Katayev | 3 |
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: 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)
- Valentin Kataevb. 1897UAnot in their usual nameSoviet writer, playwright, screenwriter, poet (1897–1986)
- Yevgeny Petrovb. 1902UAnot in their usual nameSoviet writer (1902–1942)
- Oleg Katayevb. 1923RUnot in their usual nameRussian entomologist
- Pavel Katayevb. 1938RUnot in their usual nameRussian children's writer
- Ilya Katayevb. 1939USnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian composer (1939–2009)
- Yelena Katayevab. 1956RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Yevgeny Katayevb. 1970RUnot in their usual nameRussian actor
- Maria Kataevab. 1987DEnot in their usual nameRussian opera singer
- I.A. Katajevnot in their usual namebotanist
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 3 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 26 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 26 | #76,296 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Kataiev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 458 people named Катаєв in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Kataiev most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kataiev is densest in Poland — about 1 in 1.5 million people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Kataiev?
- In Poland, the national register counted 26 people named Kataiev in 2026, about 1 in 1.5 million residents.
What do you want to know about Kataiev?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kataievThe 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, “Kataiev”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.