Praskovia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: de paraskeuë, préparation, veille du sabbat
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɹəskoʊviə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Praskovia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 7.7Kas Прасковья(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 11Kas Прасков’я
- RURussia≈1 in 11Kas Прасковья
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 Praskovia 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 133 (measured from records)
- 1 in 269K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 named Прасковья, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Прасковья in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and 1 more and Прасков’я 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(measured from records)
de paraskeuë, préparation, veille du sabbat.
Sources 1
- Russian Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Praskovia 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 | #220 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | #75 | Прасковья | 133 |
| UA Ukraine | #236 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Прасков’я | 26 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #729 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.7K | 41 | Прасковья | 28 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Прасковья | 8 |
| BY Belarus | #434 | ≈77 est. | ≈1 in 123K | — | Прасковья | 13 |
| PL Poland | — | 12 | 1 in 3.2M | 12 | — | — |
| LV Latvia | — | 7 | 1 in 269K | 7 | — | 1 |
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: the russian-names-pereverzeva-2011 register; 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); 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)
- Praskovia Saltykovab. 1664RUTsarina consort of Russia (1664-1723)
- Praskovya Dolgorukovab. 1692not in their usual nameAbt 1690 - Abt 1730
- Tsarevna Praskovya Ivanovna of Russiab. 1694RUnot in their usual namedaughter of Tsar Ivan V of Russia
- Praskovia Kovalyova-Zhemchugovab. 1768RURussian actor and opera singer
- Larin Paraskeb. 1832RUnot in their usual nameIzhorian oral poet (1833-1904)
- Praskovya Uvarovab. 1840UAnot in their usual nameRussian archaeologist (1840–1924)
- Praskovya Ivanovskayab. 1852RUnot in their usual nameRussian writer and politician (1852–1935)
- Praskovia Arianb. 1864RUeditor
- Praskovya Malininab. 1904RUnot in their usual nameSoviet kolkhoz worker
- Pasha Angelinab. 1912UAnot in their usual nameSoviet tractor driver (1913-1959)
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)
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 9 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 12 | #6,212 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 12 | #6,213 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 7 | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 6 | #6,781 |
| RU Russia | Russian Names (Pereverzeva, 2011) | — | — | — |
| RU Russia | Russian Names (Pereverzeva, 2011) | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Praskovia a male or female name?
- Praskovia 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.
- In which country does Praskovia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Прасковья in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Praskovia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Praskovia is densest in Latvia — about 1 in 269 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Praskovia?
- A machine transcription gives /pɹəskoʊviə/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- What does the name Praskovia mean?
- Recorded meaning: de paraskeuë, préparation, veille du sabbat.
- How common is the name Praskovia?
- In Poland, the national register counted 12 people named Praskovia in 2026, about 1 in 3.2 million residents.
- How common is Praskovia compared with other names?
- In Russia, Praskovia is the 220th most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/praskoviaThe 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, “Praskovia” — the 220th most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.