Nikolova

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/nikoʊloʊvə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nikolova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 47K(measured from records)
  • BGBulgaria1 in 122as Николова
  • RURussia≈1 in 130Kas Николова

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 Nikolova 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.

Bulgaria (measured from records)

57,049 named Николова, 2022

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
172 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 29K (inferred from the name graph)

Switzerland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NikolovaLatin(measured from records)
НиколоваCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Николова in RU Russia.

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 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nikolova 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.

Where Nikolova is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#1757,049as Николова1 in 12261KNikolova171
MK North Macedonia#113,716as Николова1 in 5723.7KNikolova22
RU Russia—≈1,100 est.≈1 in 130K—Николова104
ES Spain—1,0631 in 47K1.1KNikolova63
IT Italy—≈930 est.≈1 in 67K—Nikolova25
CH Switzerland—2911 in 29K291Nikolova15
SI Slovenia—581 in 36K58—3

57,049 people counted by NSI — most common surnames (annual press release), 2022, counting the spelling николова. 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: NSI — most common surnames (annual press release); NSI — most common surnames; State Statistical Office — living population names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Nikolova is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, France, United States, Belgium

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Nikólova

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Nikolová

  • Greek surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece

    Also written Νικολοβα

  • Georgian surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia

    Also written ნიკოლოვა

28 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1900195020002050Yanka Nikolova, b. 1922Nadka Nikolova, b. 1955Mariana Nikolova, b. 1962Mariyana Nikolova, b. 1975Denitsa Nikolova, b. 1977Milena Nikolova, b. 1984Adriana Nikolova, b. 1988Evelina Nikolova, b. 1993Stiliana Nikolova, b. 2005

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)

FormalУважаеми(а) Nikolova,Dear Nikolova, (English)
InformalУважаеми(а) Nikolova,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 28 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Nikolova
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BG BulgariaNSI — most common surnames201861K#5
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1.1K#4,194
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#4,192
CH SwitzerlandBFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)2024291#4,487
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—58#6,867

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Nikolova?
A machine transcription gives /nikoʊloʊvə/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
In which country does Nikolova have the most bearers?
In Bulgaria, the national register counted about 57 thousand people named Николова, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Nikolova most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Nikolova is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 29 thousand people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Nikolova?
In Spain, the national register counted 1,063 people named Nikolova, about 1 in 47 thousand residents.
How common is Nikolova compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Nikolova is the 17th most common surname of 67,606 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Nikolova” — the 17th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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