Nikolajew
surname · Latin script
/nɪkolaj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Nikolajew is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 61st most common surname.
- RURussia≈1 in 1.3Kas Николаев(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 5.9Kas Ніколаєв
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 51Kas Nikolayev
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 Nikolajew 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)
- #968 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 171 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 named Николаев, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Николаев
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Николаев in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan, BY Belarus and 1 more, Ніколаєв in UA Ukraine and Nikolajev 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.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nikolajew 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 | #61 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | listed | Николаев | 171 |
| UA Ukraine | #558 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 5.9K | — | Ніколаєв | 33 |
| BY Belarus | #406 | ≈790 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Николаев | 21 |
| ES Spain | — | 624as Nikolaev | 1 in 80K | 624 | — | 23 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 51K | — | Николаев | 6 |
| EE Estonia | — | 456as Nikolajev | 1 in 2.7K | 456 | Nikolajev | 9 |
| FI Finland | #581 | 141as Nikolaev | 1 in 40K | 141 | Николаев | 8 |
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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (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)
- Leonid Nikolayevb. 1878UAnot in their usual nameRussian musician (1878–1942)
- Leonid Nikolaevb. 1904RUAssassin 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. 1965RURussian actor
- Aysen Nikolayevb. 1972RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Aleksey Nikolaevb. 1979RUUzbekistani 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 7 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 42 | #26,622 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Sukunimitilasto (Finnish surnames register) | — | 20 | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 Nikolajew?
- A machine transcription gives /nɪkolaj/ (IPA) for German.
- In which country does Nikolajew have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 106 thousand people named Николаев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Nikolajew?
- In Spain, the national register counted 624 people named Nikolaev, about 1 in 80 thousand residents.
- How common is Nikolajew compared with other names?
- In Russia, Nikolajew is the 61st most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nikolajew?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nikolajewThe 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, “Nikolajew” — the 61st most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.