Sergey

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Sergio in BR Brazil, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 12 more, Сергей in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, BY Belarus and 3 more, Serge in FR France, CA Canada and Сергеевич in TR Türkiye, KG Kyrgyzstan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Sergey is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Sinhala given name193 records spelled Sergey2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Russia, Ukraine, Canada

  Also written Şergey

• Mongolian given name23 records spelled Sergey4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Mongolia, Russia, Kazakhstan

  Also written Сергей, Syergyei, Сергеи

36 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Sergey is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Portuguese, alternative spelling of Serguei

  as a word·kaikki.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.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 35 years between 1991–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Sergey Aksakovb. 1791RURussian writer
• Sergey Vavilovb. 1891RUSoviet physicist
• Serge Prokofievb. 1891UAnot in their usual nameRussian and Soviet pianist, composer and conductor (1891–1953)
• Sergei Eisensteinb. 1898RUnot in their usual nameSoviet filmmaker (1898–1948)
• Sergey Lavrovb. 1950RURussian politician of Armenian origin, Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Sergey Nikolayevich Lazarevb. 1952RURussian parapsychologist, writer, psychologist, philosopher, psychic, painter
• Sergei Shoigub. 1955RUnot in their usual nameSecretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation since 2024 and former Russian defense minister
• Sergei Surovikinb. 1966RUnot in their usual nameHead of the CIS' Coordinating Committee for Air Defence
• Sergey Lukyanenkob. 1968RURussian science fiction writer
• Sergey Brinb. 1973USAmerican billionaire businessman (born 1973)

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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 210 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Sergey?

We estimate roughly 1.1 million people bear Sergey (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Sergey have the most bearers?

Sergey is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled сергей.

How common is Sergey compared with other names?

In Russia, Sergey is the 3rd most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.

Is Sergey a male or female name?

Sergey 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.

What does the name Sergey mean?

Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Серге́й (Sergéj).