Kovaliov
surname · Latin script
/koʋɐlʲoʋʲ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kovaliov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 76th most common surname.
- BYBelarus≈1 in 1.2Kas Kovalev(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 1.9Kas Ковалев
- UAUkraine≈1 in 2.2Kas Ковальов
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 Kovaliov 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)
- #960 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 167 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 12K (inferred from the name graph)
≈75,000 named Ковалев, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Ковалев in RU Russia, BY Belarus, UZ Uzbekistan and 1 more, Ковальов in UA Ukraine, Kovalev in US United States and Ковалёв in TW Taiwan.
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 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kovaliov 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 | #76 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | listed | Ковалев | 167 |
| UA Ukraine | #163 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Ковальов | 53 |
| BY Belarus | #33 | ≈7,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | 10 | Ковалев | 37 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Ковалёв | 1 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈860 est. | ≈1 in 36K | — | Ковалев | 6 |
| TJ Tajikistan | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Ковалев | 4 |
| US United States | — | 483as Kovalev | 1 in 689K | 557 | Kovalev | 131 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Kovaliov | 24 |
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: Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); 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)
- Mikhail Kovalyovb. 1897RUnot in their usual nameSoviet general (1897-1967)
- Sergey Kovalyovb. 1919RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian naval engineer (1919–2011)
- Sergei Kovalevb. 1930RURussian politician (1930–2021)
- Nikolai Kovalyovb. 1949RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician (1949–2019)
- Vladimir Kovalevb. 1953RURussian figure skater
- Igor Kovalyovb. 1954USnot in their usual nameSoviet and American animator
- Aleksey Kovalyovb. 1963RUnot in their usual nameRussian archeologist, politician, public figure
- Sergey Kovalevb. 1983RURussian boxer
- Nikolay Kovalevb. 1986RURussian sabre fencer
- Aleksey Kovalevb. 1989UAUkrainian politician and businessman
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 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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 Kovaliov?
- A machine transcription gives /koʋɐlʲoʋʲ/ (IPA) for Lithuanian.
- In which country does Kovaliov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 75 thousand people named Ковалев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Kovaliov?
- In the United States, the national register counted 483 people named Kovalev in 2010, about 1 in 689 thousand residents.
- How common is Kovaliov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Kovaliov is the 76th 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/kovaliovThe 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, “Kovaliov” — the 76th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.