Names of Kazakhstan KZ

2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence records Ахметов as the commonest surname in Kazakhstan; the names that most distinguish Kazakhstan from the rest of the world are Сергей, Иванович and Айгуль.

Written in Kazakh, Russian.

Population
19M
Official registers
5
Name forms recorded
350K
ABuilt from 5 official registers (2021), 350,185 name forms in our corpus, 40 cited works.

Official registers for given names and surnames, plus a written account of the naming system.

How names work in Kazakhstan

6 naming traditions are in use in Kazakhstan, 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 Kazakhstan

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 1
Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations — 79,428 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Аружан78K102
2Айша66K—
3Айзере66K—
4Айару58K—
5Амина57K33
6Диана56K—
7Айдана56K—
8Анастасия55K27
9Медина53K63
10Мадина52K44
11Раяна50K71
12Аяулым49K—
13Алина48K—
14Айлин48K—
15Кәусар48K91
16Айым41K—
17Арайлым37K—
18Дарья37K62
19Аяла37K—
20Виктория36K57

Where the two lists disagree

24 of Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrationsAcross all recordsалихан: 1 → 42 · ranks lower across all records1. алихан42александр: 2 → 12. александр1ерасыл: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. ерасылnot rankedазамат: 4 → 50 · ranks lower across all records4. азамат50рамазан: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. рамазанnot rankedдиас: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. диасnot rankedнұрислам: 7 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country7. нұрисламnot rankedсанжар: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. санжарnot rankedруслан: 9 → 25 · ranks lower across all records9. руслан25мирас: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. мирасnot rankedмаксим: 11 → 60 · ranks lower across all records11. максим60дмитрий: 12 → 17 · ranks lower across all records12. дмитрий17амир: 13 → 51 · ranks lower across all records13. амир51айсұлтан: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. айсұлтанnot rankedислам: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. исламnot rankedдамир: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. дамирnot rankedданияр: 17 → 78 · ranks lower across all records17. данияр78алдияр: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. алдиярnot rankedали: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. алиnot rankedнұрасыл: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. нұрасылnot rankedарсен: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. арсенnot rankedсергей: 22 → 3 · ranks higher across all records22. сергей3артём: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. артёмnot rankedникита: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. никитаnot rankedарман: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. арманnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations on the left; every record we hold for Kazakhstan on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Kazakhstan

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Kazakhstan 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.

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

Scripts & spelling

Names in Kazakhstan are written in Cyrillic (100%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Сергейgiven name●Sergio
Александрgiven name●Alejandro
Еленаgiven name●Elena
Александровичgiven name●Oleksandrovych
Владимировичgiven name●Volodymyrovych
The best-attested names in Kazakhstan, 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

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

What is the most common given name in Kazakhstan?
Алихан, according to Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations, with 62,586 bearers recorded among boys.
What is the most common surname in Kazakhstan?
Ахметов, according to 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence (2021), with 56,813 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Kazakhstan?
Because they count different people. Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Алихан. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Александр. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Kazakhstan?
No — 6 are described on this page (Kazakh and Kyrgyz, 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 Kazakhstan”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/KZ (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Bureau of National Statistics — birth registrations; 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence.