Names of Ukraine UA
Ministry of Justice Ukraine — Most Popular Newborn Names (2025) records Kipa as the commonest given name in Ukraine; the names that most distinguish Ukraine from the rest of the world are Іванович, Володимир and Олександр.
Written in Ukrainian, Russian.
- Population
- 44M
- Official registers
- 1
- Name forms recorded
- 339K
At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.
How names work in Ukraine
6 naming traditions are in use in Ukraine, 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 Ukraine
This register publishes counts, not ranks; the numbering is the order of its own figures.
| # | Name | Bearers recorded | Our rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kipa | — | — |
| 2 | Аделіна | — | — |
| 3 | Аліна | — | — |
| 4 | Аліса | — | — |
| 5 | Амелія | — | — |
| 6 | Анастасія | — | 38 |
| 7 | Ангеліна | — | — |
| 8 | Анна | — | — |
| 9 | Аріана | — | — |
| 10 | Аріна | — | — |
| 11 | Богдана | — | — |
| 12 | Валерія | — | 83 |
| 13 | Варвара | — | 100 |
| 14 | Вероніка | — | — |
| 15 | Владислава | — | — |
| 16 | Вікторія | — | 33 |
| 17 | Віолетта | — | — |
| 18 | Віра | — | 37 |
| 19 | Ганна | — | 8 |
| 20 | Дар'Я | — | — |
Where the two lists disagree
25 of Ministry of Justice Ukraine — Most Popular Newborn Names's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.
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 Ukraine
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Ukraine 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.
Scripts & spelling
Names in Ukraine are written in Cyrillic (96%) and Latin (4%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.
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
- Ministry of Justice Ukraine — Most Popular Newborn Names2025headline (given)
Ministry of Justice of Ukraine (Міністерство юстиції України). Counts: not recorded. given. 230 forms. 2015–2025. Licence: unknown.
What we know about this register
Index page at minjust.gov.ua/actual-info/info_imena lists ~21 DOCX files, one per period (semi-annual, back to 2004). Each DOCX contains a table with columns: region | popular F names | popular M names | rare F names | rare M names. Direct download returns 403; fetched via Firecrawl which bypasses the block and converts DOCX to markdown. Firecrawl API key required.
Last verified 2026-05-10.
Sub-national 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.
- How Russian Names Workpaper
- Circassiansencyclopaedia
- A primer on Chechen namesweb
- Behind the Namenamesite
- Chechen languageencyclopaedia
- Chechen Namesnamesite
- Chechensencyclopaedia
- Circassian diasporaencyclopaedia
- Circassian Names (Jaimoukha, oocities)web
- Circassiansencyclopaedia
- Circassians: Kinshipweb
- Crafting Identity: Surnames in the Turkish Republicweb
- Double Surnames Among Circassians in Homeland and Diaspora (Ionov 2024, Voprosy Onomastiki / Avesis)web
- Eastern Slavic naming customsencyclopaedia
- How Russian Patronymics Workweb
- Ingush peopleencyclopaedia
- Ingush submitted surnamesnamesite
- Kabardiansencyclopaedia
- Nakh languagesencyclopaedia
- Quora: Russified -ov/-ova names in the Caucasusweb
- Romanization of Ukrainianencyclopaedia
- Russian given nameencyclopaedia
- Russian surnameencyclopaedia
- Russification of Central Asian namesweb
- Slavic name suffixesencyclopaedia
- South Ossetia Adopts Law On Surnamesweb
- Surname Law (Turkey)encyclopaedia
- Teipencyclopaedia
- The de-Russification of surnames in Central Asiaweb
- Tribal Unions and Clansweb
- Ukraine Naming Customsgenealogy
- Ukrainianweb
- Ukrainian nameencyclopaedia
- Ukrainian surnamesencyclopaedia
- Volodymyrencyclopaedia
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 Ukraine?
- Андрій, according to Ministry of Justice Ukraine — Most Popular Newborn Names (2025) among boys.
- Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Ukraine?
- Because they count different people. Ministry of Justice Ukraine — Most Popular Newborn Names (2025) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Андрій. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Олександр. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
- Is there one naming system in Ukraine?
- No — 6 are described on this page (Ukrainian, 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 Ukraine”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/UA (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Ministry of Justice Ukraine — Most Popular Newborn Names.