Stoeva

surname · Latin script

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

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

Stoeva is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BGBulgaria≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • ATAustria≈1 in 277K
  • ESSpain1 in 893K

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 Stoeva 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.

Bulgaria (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,900 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
85 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Bulgaria, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

StoevaLatin(measured from records)
СтоеваCyrillic(measured from records)

Locally spelled Стоева in RU Russia, 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.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Stoeva 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 Stoeva is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BG Bulgaria#187≈3,900 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Stoeva85
RU Russia—≈290 est.≈1 in 496K—Стоева28
MK North Macedonia—189as Стоева1 in 11K189Stoeva3
US United States—≈71 est.≈1 in 4.7MlistedStoeva75
DE Germany—≈71 est.≈1 in 1.1M—Stoeva23
UA Ukraine—≈64 est.≈1 in 681K—Стоева3
ES Spain—561 in 893K56Stoeva15
AT Austria—≈32 est.≈1 in 277K—Stoeva10

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 us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; State Statistical Office — living population names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)

Stoeva is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, United States, Honduras

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Stoéva

  • Russian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Стоева

25 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)

1940196019802000Vasilka Stoeva, b. 1940Lachezara Stoeva, b. 1977Gabriela Stoeva, b. 1994Stefani Stoeva, b. 1995

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)

FormalУважаеми(а) Stoeva,Dear Stoeva, (English)
InformalУважаеми(а) Stoeva,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Stoeva
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—56#41,225
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—56#40,981
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

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

How do you pronounce Stoeva?
A machine transcription gives /stoʊvə/ (IPA) for Bulgarian.
In which country does Stoeva have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.9 thousand people named Stoeva in Bulgaria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled stoeva.
How common is the name Stoeva?
In Spain, the national register counted 56 people named Stoeva, about 1 in 893 thousand residents.
How common is Stoeva compared with other names?
In Bulgaria, Stoeva is the 187th most common surname of 67,606 surnames 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, “Stoeva” — the 187th most common surname in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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