Orlova
surname · Latin script
Meaning: inflection of orlův: (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ɐrɫovə/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from орлова
Orlova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 52nd most common surname. Orlova is also written Орлова in Cyrillic and ორლოვა in Georgian.
- LVLatvia≈1 in 2.2Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- EEEstonia1 in 2.4K
- FIFinland1 in 23K
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 Orlova 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)
- #855 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 174 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.2K (inferred from the name graph)
≈130,000 named Орлова, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Orlova in other scripts: Cyrillic and Georgian
(measured from records)Locally spelled Орлова in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, KZ Kazakhstan and 2 more.
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.
How to pronounce Orlova
- Russian:/ɐrɫovə/(machine-generated) model-generated
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)inflection of orlův:
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Orlova is found
(measured from records)Orlova 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 | #52 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Орлова | 174 |
| UA Ukraine | #249 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Орлова | 54 |
| BY Belarus | #71 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Орлова | 26 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | #253 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.4K | — | Орлова | 39 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Орлова | 10 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,036 | 1 in 37K | 1K | Orlova | 18 |
| LV Latvia | — | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 2.2K | — | Orlova | 30 |
| EE Estonia | #451 | 507 | 1 in 2.4K | 507 | Orlova | 21 |
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: 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Orlova is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, pilsēta Krievijā, Kirovas apgabalā, piestātne Vjatkas labajā krastā, 7000 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.), 1923.-1991. g. saucās Halturina
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, pilsēta Čehijā, Morāvijas-Silēzijas apgabalā, 31000 iedzīvotāju (2012. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, apdzīvota vieta (skrajciems) Balvu novada Lazdulejas pagastā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Lyubov Orlovab. 1902RUSoviet actress and singer (1900–1975)
- Ol'ga Orlovab. 1977RURussian singer
- Alina Orlovab. 1988LTLithuanian singer
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)Evidence
(measured from records)26 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 14 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Orlova mean, and where does it come from?
- inflection of orlův: Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Orlova?
- In Russian /ɐrɫovə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Orlova?
- Mondonomo estimates about 126 thousand people named Орлова 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 Orlova?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,036 people named Orlova in 2026, about 1 in 37 thousand residents.
- How common is Orlova compared with other names?
- In Russia, Orlova is the 52nd 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/orlovaThe 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, “Orlova” — the 52nd most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.