Names of Belarus BY

The names that most distinguish Belarus from the rest of the world are Сергей, Александр and Татьяна; names here are written in Cyrillic.

Written in Belarusian, Russian.

Population
9.5M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
62K
BBuilt from 1 official register, 61,588 name forms in our corpus, 32 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

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Where the names most characteristic of Belarus are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Belarus included.

How names work in Belarus

6 naming traditions are in use in Belarus, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Belarus

Characteristic of Belarus

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Belarus holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

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Sized by how much of the difference between Belarus's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Names in Belarus are written in Cyrillic (99%) and Latin (1%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Александрgiven name●Alejandro
Сергейgiven name●Sergio
Натальяgiven name●Natalia
Татьянаgiven name●Tatiana
Ольгаgiven name●Olga
The best-attested names in Belarus, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • Universal Dependencies Belarusian-HSE Corpus — Person Names (UD_Belarusian-HSE)not a population count

    Higher School of Economics (HSE) / Universal Dependencies community. Counts: text_corpus. given and surname. 1,303 forms. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

    What we know about this register

    721 unique given names + 1,658 surnames extracted from UD_Belarusian-HSE (train+dev+test, 305K tokens from telegraf.by news articles). Gold-standard morphological annotation: NameType=Giv/Sur identifies name type; Gender=Masc/Fem provides sex. Counts are corpus frequency (news mentions, not population frequency). Includes authentic Belarusian script forms distinct from Russian: Алесь, Янка, Сьвятлана, Зьміцер, Аляксандр, Уладзімер. Top given names: Сяргей M=145, Сьвятлана F=106, Ганна F=75. News corpus bias: reflects public figures, not birth frequency.

    Last verified 2026-05-12.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there one naming system in Belarus?
No — 6 are described on this page (Belarusian, Russian, Ossetian, Uzbek and Russian, Chechen and Caucasian, Circassian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Belarus”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/BY (data snapshot 2026-09-12).