Lebedev
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in Russian: the nickname Lebed ‘Swan’ (a distant cogn. of L albus white). The Jewish surnames are ornamental. Vars.: Russ.: Lebedinski (a clergy name) (A dictionary of surnames)
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 14 countries
/ˈlʲebʲɪdʲɪf/(recorded in a dictionary) Russian · from Wiktionary · read from лебедев
Lebedev is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country, where it is the 69th most common surname. Lebedev is also written Лебедев in Cyrillic.
- EEEstonia1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- TJTajikistan≈1 in 4.7K
- UZUzbekistan≈1 in 14K
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 Lebedev 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)
- #946 (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 named Лебедев, est.
of 19M surnames, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Estonia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Lebedev in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Лебедев in RU Russia, UZ Uzbekistan, TJ Tajikistan 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 Lebedev
- Russian:/ˈlʲebʲɪdʲɪf/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)the nickname Lebed ‘Swan’ (a distant cogn. of L albus white). The Jewish surnames are ornamental. Vars.: Russ.: Lebedinski (a clergy name). Jewish: Lebedoff; Lebed, Lebedinsky; Lebedkin (from a dim.). Cogns.: Beloruss.: Lebyadzevich, Lebedevich (patrs.). Pol.: Lab^cki, tabydzki Czech: Lebeda.
Cited for this meaning 1
- A dictionary of surnames
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
How Lebedev is read
(measured from records)Lebedev is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Russian68%
the nickname Lebed ‘Swan’ (a distant cogn. of L albus white). The Jewish surnames are ornamental. Vars.: Russ.: Lebedinski (a clergy name). Jewish: Lebedoff; Lebed, Lebedinsky; Lebedkin (from a dim.). Cogns.: Beloruss.: Lebyadzevich, Lebedevich (patrs.). Pol.: Lab^cki, tabydzki Czech: Lebeda.
as a nameA dictionary of surnames
- English7.7%
A transliteration of the Russian surname Лебедев (Lebedev).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where the surname Lebedev is found
(measured from records)Lebedev 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 | #69 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Лебедев | 172 |
| BY Belarus | #26 | ≈5,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | — | Лебедев | 25 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | #89 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Лебедев | 8 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #33 | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 4.7K | — | Лебедев | 4 |
| UA Ukraine | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Лебедев | 47 |
| EE Estonia | #304 | 513 | 1 in 2.4K | 513 | Lebedev | 22 |
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: 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Valentin Lebedevb. 1942RUSoviet cosmonaut
- Sergey Lebedevb. 1948RURussian military officer, CIS secretary-general
- Alexander Lebedevb. 1959RURussian businessman (born 1959)
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 Lebedev mean, and where does it come from?
- the nickname Lebed ‘Swan’ (a distant cogn. of L albus white). The Jewish surnames are ornamental. Vars.: Russ.: Lebedinski (a clergy name). Recorded by A dictionary of surnames.
- How do you pronounce Lebedev?
- In Russian /ˈlʲebʲɪdʲɪf/ (Wiktionary).
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Lebedev?
- Mondonomo estimates about 106 thousand people named Лебедев in Russia, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Belarus, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Ukraine; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Lebedev most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Lebedev is densest in Estonia — about 1 in 2.4 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Lebedev?
- In Estonia, the national register counted 513 people named Lebedev, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Lebedev compared with other names?
- In Russia, Lebedev is the 69th 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/lebedevThe 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, “Lebedev” — the 69th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.