Pelageja

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Sievietes vārds

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

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

Pelageja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine≈1 in 2.7Kas Пелагея(inferred from the name graph)
  • KZKazakhstan≈1 in 5.4Kas Пелагея
  • RURussia≈1 in 7.9Kas Пелагея

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 Pelageja 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)

≈18,000 named Пелагея, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
140 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)

Latvia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

ПелагеяCyrillic(measured from records)
PelaheiaLatin(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Пелагея in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and Pelageya in US United States, LV Latvia.

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(measured from records)

recorded in Latvian

Sievietes vārds

Sources 1

  • Tēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Pelageja 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 Pelageja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#177≈18,000 est.≈1 in 7.9K#68Пелагея140
UA Ukraine#154≈16,000 est.≈1 in 2.7K—Пелагея24
PL Poland—3,714as Pelagia1 in 10K3.7K——
KZ Kazakhstan#635≈3,500 est.≈1 in 5.4K174Пелагея30
US United States—389as Pelagia1 in 855K387Pelageya31
LV Latvia—1691 in 11K169Pelageya3

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: Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in 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).

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

Pelageja is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Pelageya

7 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)

1700180019002000Pelageya Gorchakova, b. 1762Pelageya Sheremeteva, b. 1802Pelaheia Lytvynova, b. 1833Pauline Couriard, b. 1848Pelageya Shajn, b. 1894Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochina, b. 1899Pelageya Danilova, b. 1918Polina Raiko, b. 1928Pelageya Nevzorova, b. 1996

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)

InformalПривет, Pelageja!Hi Pelageja, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 5 sources across 3 countries.

Official registers attesting Pelageja
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
LV LatviaPMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register)—169—
LV LatviaPMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)—168#960

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

How do you pronounce Pelageja?
A machine transcription gives /pəɫædʒdʒə/ (IPA) for Russian.
Is Pelageja a male or female name?
Pelageja is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Pelageja mean?
Recorded meaning: Sievietes vārds
In which country does Pelageja have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Пелагея in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Pelageja most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pelageja is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Pelageja?
In Latvia, the national register counted 169 people named Pelageja, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
How common is Pelageja compared with other names?
In Russia, Pelageja is the 177th most common given name of 472,143 given names 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, “Pelageja” — the 177th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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