Volkava
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Volkava is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common surname.
- RURussia≈1 in 780as Волкова(inferred from the name graph)
- BYBelarus≈1 in 960as Волкова
- EEEstonia1 in 1.7Kas Volkova
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 Volkava 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)
- #554 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 175 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 777 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 named Волкова, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Russia, est., as Волкова
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Волкова in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 3 more and Volkova in PL Poland, LV Latvia.
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 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Volkava is found
(measured from records)Volkava 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 | #17 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 777 | — | Волкова | 175 |
| UA Ukraine | #119 | ≈20,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Волкова | 58 |
| BY Belarus | #42 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 963 | — | Волкова | 28 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #118 | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 4K | 1 | Волкова | 44 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈2,400 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Волкова | 7 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,539as Volkova | 1 in 25K | 1.5K | Volkova | 20 |
| LV Latvia | #318 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Volkova | 33 |
| EE Estonia | — | 704as Volkova | 1 in 1.7K | 704 | Волкова | 29 |
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 living persons (surnames); Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (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).
Evidence
(measured from records)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Volkava?
- Mondonomo estimates about 185 thousand people named Волкова in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Volkava?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,539 people named Volkova in 2026, about 1 in 25 thousand residents.
- How common is Volkava compared with other names?
- In Russia, Volkava is the 17th most common surname of 1,952,411 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/volkavaThe 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, “Volkava” — the 17th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.