Korolyov
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/koʊɹəliɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Korolyov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 24th most common surname.
- RURussia≈1 in 1.7Kas Королева(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 3.1Kas Королёва
- UAUkraine≈1 in 8.2Kas Корольов
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 Korolyov 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)
- #714 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 163 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈83,000 named Королева, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Королева
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Королева in BY Belarus, KG Kyrgyzstan, UZ Uzbekistan, Королев in RU Russia, Корольов in UA Ukraine and Korolev in US United States.
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 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Korolyov 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 | #24 | ≈83,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Королев | 163 |
| UA Ukraine | #711 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Корольов | 40 |
| BY Belarus | #46 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Королева | 22 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Королёва | 1 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈810 est. | ≈1 in 38K | — | Королева | 7 |
| US United States | — | 251as Korolev | 1 in 1.3M | 251 | Korolev | 133 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Королева | 10 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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)
- Boris Korolevb. 1884RURussian sculptor (1885-1963)
- Sergei Koroliovb. 1906UAnot in their usual nameSoviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer (1907-1966)
- Nikolai Fyodorovich Korolevb. 1917RUboxer and trainer (1917–1974)
- Lev Korolyovb. 1926RUSoviet-Russian computer scientist and university teacher (1926–2016)
- Andrey Korolevb. 1944RURussian linguist (1944–1999)
- Evgeni Koroliovb. 1949DEnot in their usual nameRussian pianist
- Yuri Korolevb. 1962RURussian artistic gymnast (1962–2023)
- Igor Korolevb. 1970RURussian ice hockey player (1970-2011)
- Yaroslav Korolevb. 1987RURussian basketball player (born 1987)
- Evgeny Korolevb. 1988RUtennis 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 5 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 1
- 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
- How do you pronounce Korolyov?
- A machine transcription gives /koʊɹəliɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Korolyov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 83 thousand people named Королева in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Korolyov?
- In the United States, the national register counted 251 people named Korolev in 2010, about 1 in 1.3 million residents.
- How common is Korolyov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Korolyov is the 24th 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/korolyovThe 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, “Korolyov” — the 24th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.