Nikulina

surname · Latin script

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

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

Nikulina is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • RURussia≈1 in 3.6Kas Никулина(inferred from the name graph)
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 11Kas Нікуліна
  • KZKazakhstan≈1 in 15Kas Никулина

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 Nikulina 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)

≈39,000 named Никулина, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
154 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 7.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NikulinaLatin(measured from records)
НикулинаCyrillic(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Никулина in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 1 more and Нікуліна 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.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nikulina 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 Nikulina is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#323≈39,000 est.≈1 in 3.6K—Никулина154
UA Ukraine—≈4,000 est.≈1 in 11K—Нікуліна35
KZ Kazakhstan—≈1,300 est.≈1 in 15K—Никулина37
BY Belarus—≈770 est.≈1 in 12K—Никулина16
UZ Uzbekistan—≈550 est.≈1 in 55K—Никулина5
PL Poland—3111 in 123K311Nikulina8
LV Latvia—≈250 est.≈1 in 7.5K—Nikulina11

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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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)

Nikulina is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Estonian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Russia, Estonia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Nikuļina

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Ņikuļina, Nìkulìna

  • Latvian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Lithuania, United Kingdom, Russia

    Languages: Latvian, Lithuanian

    Also written Ņikuļina, Nikuļina

29 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)

18001850190019502000Lyubov Nikulina-Kositskaya, b. 1827Yevdokiya Nikulina, b. 1917Lyubov Butkevich, b. 1924Tatiana Nikulina, b. 1929Maya Nikulina, b. 1937Galina Nikulina, b. 1947Marina Nikulina-Pankova, b. 1963Elena Nikulina, b. 1978Anna Nikulina, b. 1985Ekaterina Nikulina, b. 1992

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)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Nikulina
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026311—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—311#10,693

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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 Nikulina?
A machine transcription gives /nɪkuɫinə/ (IPA) for Russian.
In which country does Nikulina have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 39 thousand people named Никулина in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Nikulina?
In Poland, the national register counted 311 people named Nikulina in 2026, about 1 in 123 thousand residents.
How common is Nikulina compared with other names?
In Russia, Nikulina is the 323rd most common surname of 1,952,411 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, “Nikulina” — the 323rd most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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