Mikalaj
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mikəɫɑʒ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mikalaj is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common given name.
- BGBulgaria1 in 75as Николай(measured from records)
- RURussia≈1 in 85as Николай
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 193as Николай
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 Mikalaj 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)
- #47 (measured from records)
- 7 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 282 (measured from records)
- 1 in 75 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700,000 named Николай, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Bulgaria, as Николай
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Николай in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, UA Ukraine and 2 more and Nikolaj in MD Moldova.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mikalaj 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 | #14 | ≈1,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 85 | #2 | Николай | 259 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #10 | ≈99,000 est. | ≈1 in 193 | 15K | Николай | 66 |
| BG Bulgaria | #4 | 92,940as Николай | 1 in 75 | 93K | Николай | 193 |
| UA Ukraine | #85 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 545 | — | Николай | 98 |
| BY Belarus | #18 | ≈40,000 est. | ≈1 in 236 | 27 | Николай | 54 |
| MD Moldova | #83 | 32,823as Nicolai | 1 in 103 | 33K | Nikolaj | 30 |
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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; NSI — most common given names (population); Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); e-services.md — living population 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)
- Nikolai Sudzilovskyb. 1850USnot in their usual nameRussian and Hawaiian politician (1850–1930)
- Nicholasb. 1891LTnot in their usual nameBishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Krutitsky and Kolomensky (1891-1961)
- Nikolay Gikalob. 1897UAnot in their usual nameSoviet politician (1897-1938)
- Mikalay Yaromenkab. 1926BYnot in their usual nameBelorussian-Soviet film and theatre actor (1926-2000)
- Mikałaj Śluńkowb. 1929BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian politician
- Mikałaj Dziemianciejb. 1930BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian politician (1930-2018)
- Nikolai Gorbachevb. 1948BYnot in their usual nameCanoe racer (1948–2019)
- Mikałaj Statkevičb. 1956BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian politician
- Nikolay Zolotovb. 1994BYnot in their usual nameBelarusian association football player
- Nikolai Lukashenkob. 2004BYnot in their usual nameson of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (born 2004)
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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Mikalaj?
- A machine transcription gives /mikəɫɑʒ/ (IPA) for Belarusian.
- Is Mikalaj a male or female name?
- Mikalaj is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Mikalaj have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 million people named Николай in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mikalaj most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Mikalaj itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Bulgaria's: the national register counts about 1 in 75 people named Николай.
- How common is the name Mikalaj?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted 92,940 people named Николай in 2018, about 1 in 75 residents.
- How common is Mikalaj compared with other names?
- In Russia, Mikalaj is the 14th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mikalaj?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mikalajThe 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, “Mikalaj” — the 14th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.