Paliy
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Paliy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.8M(measured from records)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 4.4Kas Палій
- RURussia≈1 in 31Kas Палий
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 Paliy itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 137 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.8M (inferred from the name graph)
≈8,600 named Палій, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Палий in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Palii in PL Poland, MD Moldova and Палій 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.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Paliy 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #344 | ≈8,600 est. | ≈1 in 4.4K | — | Палій | 35 |
| RU Russia | — | ≈4,700 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Палий | 137 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,003as Palii | 1 in 38K | 538 | Palii | 8 |
| MD Moldova | #928 | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 6K | — | Palii | 5 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 69K | 153 | Палий | 26 |
| US United States | — | 117 | 1 in 2.8M | 139 | Paliy | 35 |
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: 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Paliy is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In woe, side, flank
as a wordAustronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Semen Paliyb. 1645UAZaporozhian Cossack polkovnyk (colonel) (early 1640s–1710)
- Ihor Paliyb. 1963UAUkrainian artist
- Andrei Nikolayevich Palyb. 1971UAnot in their usual nameRussian commander
- Oleksandr Paliyb. 1974UAUkrainian political scientist
- Andrei Palyb. 1976RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician
- Bar Palyb. 1982ILnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 139 | #128,411 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 117 | #142,108 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 41 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 41 | #57,120 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 31 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 31 | #68,952 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- In which country does Paliy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 8.6 thousand people named Палій in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Paliy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Paliy is densest in the United States — about 1 in 2.8 million people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Paliy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 117 people named Paliy in 2010, about 1 in 2.8 million residents.
- How common is Paliy compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Paliy is the 344th most common surname of 1,177,784 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Paliy?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/paliyThe 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, “Paliy” — the 344th most common surname in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.