Varvara
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Varvara is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Greece it is the 24th most common given name. Recorded meaning: "foreignor." Russianization of Barbara.
- GRGreece≈1 in 25K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 353as Barbara
- UAUkraine≈1 in 914as Варвара
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 Varvara 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #974 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 170 (measured from records)
- 1 in 672 (inferred from the name graph)
943,006 named Barbara, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Варвара in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, Barbara in US United States, GR Greece and Varja in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia.
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)
"foreignor." Russianization of Barbara. See also Barbara.
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Varvara 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 943,006as Barbara | 1 in 353 | 942K | Barbara | 119 |
| PL Poland | — | 467,697as Barbara | 1 in 82 | 468K | Varvara | 15 |
| BR Brazil | — | 181,614as Barbara | 1 in 1.2K | 182K | — | 1 |
| RU Russia | #106 | ≈150,000 est. | ≈1 in 918 | #43 | Варвара | 170 |
| UA Ukraine | #103 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 914 | listed | Варвара | 48 |
| HU Hungary | — | 27,731as Barbara | 1 in 352 | 28K | — | — |
| HR Croatia | — | 10,636as Barbara | 1 in 397 | 11K | Varja | 10 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 9,087as Barbara | 1 in 231 | 9.1K | Varja | 6 |
| MD Moldova | #292 | 5,006 | 1 in 672 | 5K | Varvara | 9 |
| GR Greece | #24 | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 25K | 59 | Barbara | 97 |
943,006 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); SURS — resident population given names; e-services.md — living 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Varvara is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, forma feminina de Varvaro
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
In Italian, Variante di Barbaro
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
La extranjera
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Russian form of BARBARA . Pet form: Varya .
as a word
In English, A transliteration of the Belarusian, Macedonian, Russian, or Ukrainian female given name Варва́ра (Varvára).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Saint Barbarab. 273TRnot in their usual nameearly Christian saint and martyr, from Nicomedia (273-306)
- Varvara Alekseevna Morozovab. 1848RURussian industrialist and philanthropist (1848–1917)
- Varvara Massalitinovab. 1878RURussian and Soviet actress (1878–1945)
- Barbarab. 1880RUnot in their usual nameRussian Orthodox saint
- Varvara Yakovlevab. 1885RURussian bolshevik politician (1885–1941)
- Barbara Karinskab. 1886USnot in their usual nameUkrainian-born US costumer
- Varvara Stepanovab. 1894RURussian artist (1894-1958)
- Varvara Lepchenkob. 1986UZUkrainian-American tennis player
- Varvara Flinkb. 1996RURussian tennis player
- Varvara Grachevab. 2000RURussian and French tennis player
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 60 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 133 | #132,523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 113 | #146,201 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 108 | #141,788 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 11 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 Varvara mean?
- Recorded meaning: "foreignor." Russianization of Barbara.
- Where does the name Varvara come from?
- "foreignor." Russianization of Barbara. See also Barbara. Recorded by A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996).
- Is Varvara a male or female name?
- Varvara 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 Varvara?
- In the etymology graph, Barbara, Barbra and Bárbara are forms of the same name in other languages; Varya is a recorded short or pet form.
- In which country does Varvara have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 943 thousand people named Barbara, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Varvara most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Varvara is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 672 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Varvara?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 5,006 people named Varvara, about 1 in 672 residents.
- How common is Varvara compared with other names?
- In Greece, Varvara is the 24th most common given name of 24,546 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, “Varvara” — the 24th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.