Pelagia
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Del mar
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pelaxja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Pelagia is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PLPoland1 in 10K(measured from records)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 24K
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 10K
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 Pelagia 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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 92 (measured from records)
- 1 in 10K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,500 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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(measured from records)
Del mar
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pelagia 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,500 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Pelagia | 14 |
| PL Poland | #972 | 3,714 | 1 in 10K | 3.7K | Pelagia | 34 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈3,000 est. | ≈1 in 20K | — | Pelagia | 12 |
| PE Peru | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Pelagia | 6 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 10K | — | Pelagia | 8 |
| GE Georgia | #643 | 279as პელაგია | 1 in 14K | 279 | Pelagia | 7 |
| CY Cyprus | — | 98as Πελαγια | 1 in 13K | 98 | Pelagia | 6 |
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 given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Georgia PSDA/SDA civil-registry name statistics (per-token API); CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census). 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)
Pelagia is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Polish: from the feminine form of the Greek name Pelagios (Latin Pelagius ), a derivative of Greek pelagos open sea. The name was borne by various early saints, including a fifteen-year-old virgin martyr of the 4th century who died by throwing herself from the top of a building to preserve her chastity. Derivatives: Russian: Pelageya. French: Pélagie .
as a word
In Italian, any jellyfish of the Pelagia taxonomic genus
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)
- Pelagia of Tarsusb. 300TRMartyr and saint
- Pelagia the Virginb. 311TRChristian saint, virgin and martyr
- Pelagia Sapiehab. 1844PL(1844-1929)
- Pauline Couriardb. 1848RUnot in their usual namepainter (1848-1898)
- Paluta Badunovab. 1885BYnot in their usual namepolitician (1885-1938)
- Pelageya Shajnb. 1894RUnot in their usual nameRussian astronomer
- Pelageya Polubarinova-Kochinab. 1899RUnot in their usual nameRussian mathematician (1899–1999)
- Pelageya Danilovab. 1918RUnot in their usual nameartistic gymnast (1918-2001)
- Polina Raikob. 1928UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian naïve painter
- Pelageya Nevzorovab. 1996RUnot in their usual nameactress
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)
Attested in 43 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 3.7K | #294 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 3.7K | #294 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 4 | — |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2026 | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- How do you pronounce Pelagia?
- A machine transcription gives /pelaxja/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- What does the name Pelagia mean, and where does it come from?
- Del mar Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- Is Pelagia a male or female name?
- Pelagia is a female 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.
- What are other forms of the name Pelagia?
- In the etymology graph, Pelageya and Pelagiya are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Pelagia have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.5 thousand people named Pelagia in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled pelagia.
- Where is Pelagia most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pelagia is densest in Poland — about 1 in 10 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pelagia?
- In Poland, the national register counted 3,714 people named Pelagia in 2026, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
- How common is Pelagia compared with other names?
- In Georgia, Pelagia is the 643rd most common given name of 12,900 given names 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/pelagiaThe 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, “Pelagia” — the 643rd most common given name in Georgia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.