Pelageya
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pelageya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Greek Pelagia ‘of the ocean’.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 23K(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 2.7Kas Пелагея
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 5.4Kas 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 Pelageya 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 140 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 23K (inferred from the name graph)
≈18,000 named Пелагея, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kyrgyzstan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Пелагея in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 1 more.
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)
From Greek Pelagia ‘of the ocean’.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pelageya 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 | #177 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | #68 | Пелагея | 140 |
| UA Ukraine | #154 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Пелагея | 24 |
| PL Poland | — | 3,714as Pelagia | 1 in 10K | 3.7K | — | — |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #635 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | 174 | Пелагея | 30 |
| US United States | — | 389as Pelagia | 1 in 855K | 387 | Pelageya | 31 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Пелагея | 8 |
| LV Latvia | — | 169as Pelageja | 1 in 11K | 169 | Pelageya | 3 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pelageya Gorchakovab. 1762(1762-1838)
- Pelageya Sheremetevab. 1802(1802-1871)
- Pelaheia Lytvynovab. 1833UAUkrainian folklorist (1833–1904)
- Pauline Couriardb. 1848RUnot in their usual namepainter (1848-1898)
- Pelageya Shajnb. 1894RURussian astronomer
- Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochinab. 1899RURussian mathematician (1899–1999)
- Pelageya Danilovab. 1918RUartistic gymnast (1918-2001)
- Polina Raikob. 1928UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian naïve painter
- Pelageya Nevzorovab. 1996RUactress
- Pelageya YereminaRURussian Righteous Among the Nations
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- What does the name Pelageya mean, and where does it come from?
- From Greek Pelagia ‘of the ocean’. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- Is Pelageya a male or female name?
- Pelageya 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 are other forms of the name Pelageya?
- In the etymology graph, Pelagia and Pelagiya are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pelageya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Пелагея in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Pelageya?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,714 people named Pelagia in 2026, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Pelageya compared with other names?
- In Russia, Pelageya is the 177th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pelageyaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Pelageya” — the 177th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.