Kirej

surname · Latin script

Kirej is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

  • PLPoland1 in 672K(measured from records)
  • BYBelarus≈1 in 42Kfew recordsas Кирей
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 160Kas Кирей

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 Kirej itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Russia (inferred from the name graph)

≈590 named Кирей, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
104 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 672K (inferred from the name graph)

Poland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
KirejLatin(measured from records)
КирейCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Кирей in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and Кірей 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 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Kirej 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.

Where Kirej is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia≈590 est.≈1 in 245Kregister #2,096Кирей104
UA Ukraine≈240 est.≈1 in 156K—Кірей21
BY Belarus≈220 est.≈1 in 42K—Кирей12
KZ Kazakhstan≈64 est.≈1 in 323K3Кирей19
PL Poland571 in 672K31—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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Kirej
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202631—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—31#68,197
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202626—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—26#76,478

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Kirej have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 587 people named Кирей in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Kirej most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Kirej is densest in Poland — about 1 in 672 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Kirej?
In Poland, the national register counted 57 people named Kirej in 2026, about 1 in 672 thousand residents.

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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, “Kirej”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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