Zajcev
surname · Latin script
Zajcev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common surname.
- RURussia≈1 in 1.3Kas Зайцев(inferred from the name graph)
- UAUkraine≈1 in 3.1Kas Зайцев
- BYBelarus≈1 in 4.8Kas Зайцев
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 Zajcev 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)
- #817 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1M (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 named Зайцев, est.
of 19M surnames
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Зайцев in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 2 more and Zaitsev in PL Poland, EE Estonia, CZ Czechia.
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)
Zajcev 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 | #56 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Зайцев | 172 |
| UA Ukraine | #224 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | — | Зайцев | 53 |
| BY Belarus | #7 | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.8K | 1 | Зайцев | 26 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #104 | ≈910 est. | ≈1 in 34K | — | Зайцев | 8 |
| PL Poland | — | 829as Zaitsev | 1 in 46K | 829 | Zaitsev | 21 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | #122 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Зайцев | 12 |
| EE Estonia | #301 | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 8.6K | listed | Zaitsev | 29 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 10 | 1 in 1.1M | 10 | Zaitsev | 9 |
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: Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
Zajcev is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Slovenian, genitive dual/plural of zajec
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)
- Alexander Mikhaylovich Zaytsevb. 1841RUnot in their usual nameRussian chemist (1841–1910)
- Boris Zaytsevb. 1881FRnot in their usual nameRussian writer and dramatist (1881–1972)
- Vasily Zaytsevb. 1915RUnot in their usual nameSoviet sniper (1915-1991)
- Alexander Zaitsevb. 1935RURussian chess grandmaster (1935–1971)
- Alexander Zaitsevb. 1952RURussian figure skater
- Vyacheslav Zaytsevb. 1952RUnot in their usual nameRussian volleyball player (1952–2023)
- Vladimir Zaytsevb. 1958RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian actor
- Andrey Zaytsevb. 1975RUnot in their usual nameRussian film director
- Ivan Zaytsevb. 1988ITnot in their usual nameItalian volleyball player
- Nikita Zaitsevb. 1991RURussian ice hockey 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 4 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 10 | #80,765 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #416,726 |
Reference works 1
- Wikipedia surname tokens
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
- In which country does Zajcev have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 106 thousand people named Зайцев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Zajcev most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Zajcev is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 1.1 million people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Zajcev?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 10 people named Zajcev, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Zajcev compared with other names?
- In Russia, Zajcev is the 56th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zajcev?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zajcevThe 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, “Zajcev” — the 56th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.