Lazarev
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/lazəɹɛv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Lazarev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Moldova it is the 99th most common surname. Recorded meaning: Derived from Lazar’, from AdLapos.
- RURussia≈1 in 3.2Kas Лазарев(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 19Kas Лазарев
- MDMoldova≈1 in 4.7K
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 Lazarev 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 named Лазарев, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Moldova, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Лазарев in RU Russia, BY Belarus, UZ Uzbekistan and 1 more and Лазарєв 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
(inferred from the name graph)Derived from Lazar’, from AdLapos
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Lazarev 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 | #248 | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | listed | Лазарев | 166 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Лазарєв | 42 |
| BY Belarus | #558 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Лазарев | 20 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Лазарев | 7 |
| MD Moldova | #99 | ≈720 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Lazarev | 11 |
| US United States | — | 230 | 1 in 1.4M | 249 | Lazarev | 106 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈95 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 126 | Лазарев | 17 |
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: the russian-surnames-unbegaun-1972 register; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; the ee-stat-nimed register. 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 Lazarevb. 1788RURussian fleet commander and explorer (1788-1851)
- Ivan Lazarevb. 1820AZRussian general (1820–1879)
- Viktor Lazarevb. 1897RUSoviet art historian (1897–1976)
- Vasily Lazarevb. 1928RUSoviet cosmonaut (1928–1990)
- Yevgeni Lazarevb. 1937RURussian actor (1937–2016)
- Alexander Lazarevb. 1938RUSoviet and Russian actor (1938—2011)
- Alexander Lazarevb. 1945RURussian conductor
- Sergey Nikolayevich Lazarevb. 1952RURussian parapsychologist, writer, psychologist, philosopher, psychic, painter
- Sergey Lazarevb. 1983RURussian singer
- Maxim Alexandrovich Lazarevb. 1985RURussian entomologist and educator (born 1985)
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)23 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 249 | #81,829 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 230 | #82,044 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 126 | #577 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 112 | #137,816 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 5 | #16,429 |
| RU Russia | Russian Surnames (Unbegaun, 1972) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
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 Lazarev?
- A machine transcription gives /lazəɹɛv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- What does the name Lazarev mean?
- Recorded meaning: Derived from Lazar’, from AdLapos
- In which country does Lazarev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Лазарев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Lazarev?
- In the United States, the national register counted 230 people named Lazarev in 2010, about 1 in 1.4 million residents.
- How common is Lazarev compared with other names?
- In Russia, Lazarev is the 248th 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/lazarevThe 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, “Lazarev” — the 248th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.