Zelimkhan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/zɛlɛ̃kɑ̃/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Zelimkhan is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country.
- RURussia≈1 in 20Kas Зелимхан(inferred from the name graph)
- KZKazakhstan≈1 in 48Kas Зелимхан
- BEBelgium≈1 in 182K
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 Zelimkhan 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 126 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 182K (inferred from the name graph)
≈7,100 named Зелимхан, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Belgium, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Зелимхан in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, KG Kyrgyzstan and Zelimxan in GE Georgia.
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 9 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Zelimkhan 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 | #703 | ≈7,100 est. | ≈1 in 20K | register #307 | Зелимхан | 126 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 48K | 385 | Зелимхан | 33 |
| GE Georgia | #949 | 270as ზელიმხან | 1 in 15K | 270 | Zelimxan | 6 |
| FR France | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 612K | — | Zelimkhan | 66 |
| PL Poland | — | 74 | 1 in 517K | 74 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 182K | — | Zelimkhan | 6 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | ≈23 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Зелимхан | 8 |
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; Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20). 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)- Zelimxan Yaqubb. 1950AZnot in their usual nameAzerbaijani poet (1950-2016)
- Zelimkhan Yandarbiyevb. 1952RUPresident of Chechnya (1952-2004)
- Zelimkhan Mutsoyevb. 1959RURussian politician
- Zelimkhan Khangoshvilib. 1979GEGeorgian Chechen field commander (1979-2019)
- Zelimkhan Huseynovb. 1981RUAzerbaijani wrestler
- Zelimkhan Bakaevb. 1992RURussian singer
- Zelimkhan Akhkilgovb. 1993RURussian footballer
- Zelimkhan Labazanovb. 1993RURussian association football player
- Zelimkhan Khadjievb. 1994RUFrench wrestler
- Zelimkhan Bakayevb. 1996RURussian association football 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 74 | #2,562 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 70 | #2,460 |
Reference works 2
- 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 are other forms of the name Zelimkhan?
- In the etymology graph, Zəlimxan is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Zelimkhan?
- A machine transcription gives /zɛlɛ̃kɑ̃/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Zelimkhan a male or female name?
- Zelimkhan is a male 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.
- In which country does Zelimkhan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 7.1 thousand people named Зелимхан in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Zelimkhan?
- In Poland, the national register counted 74 people named Zelimkhan in 2026, about 1 in 517 thousand residents.
- How common is Zelimkhan compared with other names?
- In Russia, Zelimkhan is the 703rd most common given name of 472,143 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Zelimkhan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/zelimkhanThe 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, “Zelimkhan” — the 703rd most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.