Kuliev
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/kuʎɪɛv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Kuliev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Azerbaijan than in any other country.
- UAUkraine≈1 in 91Kas Кулієв(inferred from the name graph)
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 8.8K
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 14K
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 Kuliev 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.
- Azerbaijan (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 55 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 8.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,200 people, est.
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
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Кулієв 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 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kuliev 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AZ Azerbaijan | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | — | Kuliev | 9 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 30K | — | Kuliev | 10 |
| UA Ukraine | ≈480 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Кулієв | 24 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Kuliev | 5 |
| RU Russia | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 400K | — | Kuliev | 53 |
| TM Turkmenistan | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 71K | — | Kuliev | 7 |
| PL Poland | 69 | 1 in 555K | 69 | — | — |
| GE Georgia | 48as კულიევ | 1 in 83K | 48 | Kuliev | 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API). 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)- Eldar Quliyevb. 1941AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani film director and actor
- Vasilina Kulievab. 1981RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Dalkhat KulievRUresearcher ORCID ID = 0000-0001-9733-1532
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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 69 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 69 | #39,398 |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- 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 Kuliev?
- A machine transcription gives /kuʎɪɛv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- In which country does Kuliev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.2 thousand people named Kuliev in Azerbaijan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kuliev.
- How common is the name Kuliev?
- In Poland, the national register counted 69 people named Kuliev in 2026, about 1 in 555 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Kuliev?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kulievThe 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, “Kuliev”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.