Pavlova
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Anna Matreyevna, Russian ballet (Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 19 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/pavɫəvə/(machine-generated) Russian · model-generated · read from павлова · uncertain
Pavlova is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common surname. Pavlova is also written Павлова in Cyrillic, პავლოვა in Georgian and Παβλοβ in Greek.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 700(inferred from the name graph)
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 1.5Kfew records
- EEEstonia1 in 1.6K
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 Pavlova 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)
- #322 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 179 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 696 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 named Павлова, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bulgaria, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Pavlova in other scripts: Cyrillic, Georgian and Greek
(measured from records)Locally spelled Павлова in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 1 more, Pavlov in BG Bulgaria, PL Poland and Павлов in EE Estonia.
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 Pavlova
- Russian:/pavɫəvə/(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)Anna Matreyevna, Russian ballet
Cited for this meaning 1
- Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Pavlova is found
(measured from records)Pavlova 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 | #10 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 824 | listed | Павлова | 179 |
| UA Ukraine | #48 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | — | Павлова | 57 |
| BG Bulgaria | #31 | ≈9,300 est. | ≈1 in 696 | — | Pavlov | 123 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #893 | ≈7,300 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Павлова | 3 |
| BY Belarus | #39 | ≈6,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Павлова | 26 |
| PL Poland | — | 1,298 | 1 in 29K | 1.3K | Pavlov | 33 |
| EE Estonia | — | 786 | 1 in 1.6K | 786 | Павлов | 31 |
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)Pavlova is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, dancer
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, A meringue dessert usually topped with fruit and cream.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Croatian, ruska baletna umjetnica, virtuoz klasične plesne tehnike, izuzetne osjećajnosti
as a wordHrvatski jezični portal (HJP) dictionary export
In Latvian, pilsēta Krievijā, Ņižņijnovgorodas apgabalā, piestātne Okas labajā krastā, 59000 iedzīvotāju (2014. g.)
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)- Anna Pawlowab. 1882RUnot in their usual nameRussian ballet dancer (1881–1931)
- Olga Sapphireb. 1907JPnot in their usual nameRussian-Japanese ballerina and choreographer (1907-1981)
- Nadezhda Pavlovab. 1956RUSoviet and Russian ballet dancer
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)30 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 19 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pavlova mean, and where does it come from?
- Anna Matreyevna, Russian ballet Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
- What are other forms of the name Pavlova?
- In the etymology graph, Pavlov is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Pavlova?
- In Russian /pavɫəvə/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Pavlova?
- Mondonomo estimates about 174 thousand people named Павлова in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Ukraine, Bulgaria, Tajikistan and Belarus; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Pavlova?
- In Poland, the national register counted 1,298 people named Pavlova in 2026, about 1 in 29 thousand residents.
- How common is Pavlova compared with other names?
- In Russia, Pavlova is the 10th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pavlovaThe 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, “Pavlova” — the 10th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.