Kovalyova
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kəvɐʎevə/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from ковалева · uncertain
Kovalyova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 64th most common surname. Kovalyova is also written Ковалева in Cyrillic and კოვალიოვა in Georgian.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 61Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 900as Ковалева
- RURussia≈1 in 1.5Kas Ковалева
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 Kovalyova 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)
- #997 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 158 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 61K (inferred from the name graph)
≈98,000 named Ковалева, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Kovalyova in other scripts: Cyrillic, Latin and Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Ковалева in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 3 more and Ковалёва in EE Estonia.
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.
How to pronounce Kovalyova
- Russian:/kəvɐʎevə/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
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 the surname Kovalyova is found
(measured from records)Kovalyova 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 | #64 | ≈98,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Ковалева | 158 |
| BY Belarus | #32 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 902 | 2 | Ковалева | 25 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,800 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Ковалева | 48 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Ковалева | 8 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #832 | ≈930 est. | ≈1 in 7.8K | — | Ковалева | 12 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Ковалева | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 161as Kavaliova | 1 in 238K | 161 | — | 2 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 12K | listed | Ковалёва | 4 |
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); 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)- Irina Kovalyovab. 1964RURussian poet
- Natalia Kovalevab. 1987RURussian Go player
- Alina Kovalevab. 1993RURussian curler
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)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Kovalyova?
- In Russian /kəvɐʎevə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Kovalyova?
- Mondonomo estimates about 98 thousand people named Ковалева in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Belarus, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Kovalyova?
- In Poland, the national register counted 161 people named Kavaliova in 2026, about 1 in 238 thousand residents.
- How common is Kovalyova compared with other names?
- In Russia, Kovalyova is the 64th 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/kovalyovaThe 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, “Kovalyova” — the 64th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.