Nikolajevs
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nikolajevs is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 4.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 140K
- DKDenmark1 in 978K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Latvia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 30 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 4.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈440 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nikolajevs 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #124 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 4.3K | — | Nikolajevs | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | — | Nikolajevs | 17 |
| US United States | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 16M | listed | Nikolajevs | 17 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 140K | listed | Nikolajevs | 3 |
| DK Denmark | — | 6 | 1 in 978K | 6 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Nikolajevs | 3 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Nikolajevs | 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: the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
- Leonid Nikolayevb. 1878UAnot in their usual nameRussian musician (1878–1942)
- Leonid Nikolaevb. 1904RUnot in their usual nameAssassin of Sergei Kirov (1904–1934)
- Bogomil Raynovb. 1919BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian writer (1919-2007)
- Andriyan Nikolayevb. 1929RUnot in their usual nameSoviet cosmonaut
- Nikolay Minevb. 1931BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian chess player (1931–2017)
- Mikhail Nikolayevb. 1937RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician (1937-2023)
- Igor Yuryevich Nikolayevb. 1960RUnot in their usual nameRussian musician
- Valery Nikolaevb. 1965RUnot in their usual nameRussian actor
- Aysen Nikolayevb. 1972RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Aleksey Nikolaevb. 1979RUnot in their usual nameUzbekistani association football player
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 6 | #58,344 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Nikolajevs have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 436 people named Nikolajevs in Latvia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nikolajevs.
- How common is the name Nikolajevs?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 6 people named Nikolajevs, about 1 in 978 thousand residents.
- How common is Nikolajevs compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Nikolajevs is the 124th most common surname of 60,294 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nikolajevsThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nikolajevs” — the 124th most common surname in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.