Nikolayeva
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 6 countries
/ɲɪkɐɫajɪvə/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from николаева
Nikolayeva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 39th most common surname. Nikolayeva is also written Николаева in Cyrillic and ნიკოლაევა in Georgian.
- RURussia≈1 in 1Kas Николаева(inferred from the name graph)
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 1.8Kas Nikolaeva
- BYBelarus≈1 in 2.2Kas Николаева
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 Nikolayeva 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)
- #779 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 996 (inferred from the name graph)
≈140,000 named Николаева, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Николаева
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Nikolayeva in other scripts: Cyrillic, Latin and Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Николаева in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus, Nikolaeva in BG Bulgaria, ES Spain, MD Moldova and Ніколаєва 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.
How to pronounce Nikolayeva
- Russian:/ɲɪkɐɫajɪvə/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Nikolayeva is found
(measured from records)Nikolayeva 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 | #39 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 996 | — | Николаева | 176 |
| UA Ukraine | #414 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Ніколаєва | 42 |
| BY Belarus | #119 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Николаева | 25 |
| BG Bulgaria | #61 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Nikolaeva | 85 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #286 | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Николаева | 39 |
| MD Moldova | #73 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Nikolaeva | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 736as Nikolaeva | 1 in 68K | 736 | Nikolaeva | 33 |
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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)- Klavdiya Nikolayevab. 1893RURussian revolutionary and women's rights activist (1893-1944)
- Galina Nikolayevab. 1911RURussian writer (1911–1963)
- Tatiana Nikolayevab. 1924RURussian Soviet pianist, composer and teacher
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)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 6 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Nikolayeva?
- In Russian /ɲɪkɐɫajɪvə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Nikolayeva?
- Mondonomo estimates about 144 thousand people named Николаева in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Belarus, Bulgaria and Kazakhstan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Nikolayeva?
- In Spain, the national register counted 736 people named Nikolaeva, about 1 in 68 thousand residents.
- How common is Nikolayeva compared with other names?
- In Russia, Nikolayeva is the 39th 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/nikolayevaThe 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, “Nikolayeva” — the 39th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.