Qarayev
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Qarayev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- AZAzerbaijan≈1 in 1.9Kas Garayev(inferred from the name graph)
- RURussia≈1 in 12Kas Гараев
- UAUkraine≈1 in 173Kas Гараєв
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 Qarayev 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
- 135 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈12,000 named Гараев, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Azerbaijan, est., as Garayev
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Гараев in RU Russia, AZ Azerbaijan, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more, Гараєв in UA Ukraine and Garayev in TM Turkmenistan.
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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Qarayev 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 | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Гараев | 135 |
| AZ Azerbaijan | #187 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Гараев | 41 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 47K | — | Гараев | 6 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 173K | — | Гараєв | 13 |
| TM Turkmenistan | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 27K | — | Garayev | 6 |
| BY Belarus | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 63K | — | Гараев | 13 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | 84as Гараев | 1 in 227K | 106 | Гараев | 31 |
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 Kazakhs, by region of residence; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Russians, by region of residence. 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)
- Gara Garayevb. 1918AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani composer (1918–1982)
- Siyavuş Qarayevb. 1942AZAzerbaijani chemist
- Abulfaz Garayevb. 1956AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani politician
- Xanım İsmayılqızıb. 1956AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijan songwriter, poet, opinion journalist
- Moubariz Z. Garaevb. 1967AZPh. D. Lomonosov Moscow State University 1997
- Vusal Garaevb. 1986AZAzerbaijani footballer
- Marat Garayevb. 1990RUnot in their usual nameRussian footballer
- Gara Garayevb. 1992AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani footballer (born 1992)
- Zulfat Garaevb. 2000RURussian weightlifter
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- In which country does Qarayev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 12 thousand people named Гараев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Qarayev?
- In Kazakhstan, the national register counted 84 people named Гараев in 2021, about 1 in 227 thousand residents.
- How common is Qarayev compared with other names?
- In Azerbaijan, Qarayev is the 187th most common surname of 41,501 surnames 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/qarayevThe 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, “Qarayev” — the 187th most common surname in Azerbaijan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.