Russian Noble Name Generator
Princes, counts and barons of the Russian Empire
Generate Russian noble names in the style of 1700 to 1917: titled full names such as Prince Lev Leonidovich Shcherbatov and Countess Daria Leonidovna Orlova, Baltic barons such as Baron Yegor von der Pahlen, and noble family names like Golitsyn, Kurakin and Sheremetev.
About Russian noble names
A noble of the Russian Empire was named in three parts: given name, patronymic and family name, with a title in front if the family held one. Prince Lev Leonidovich Shcherbatov is Lev, son of Leonid, of the princely Shcherbatov family. A woman's patronymic ends in -ovna or -evna and her surname takes a feminine form, so a daughter of the Kurakin family is Kurakina and a daughter of the Volkonsky family is Volkonskaya.
The family name carries the rank. Prince belongs to old houses descended from Rurik or Gediminas, such as Golitsyn, Trubetskoy, Obolensky, Dolgorukov and Gagarin, and to Georgian and Tatar-descended lines such as Bagration and Yusupov. Count was granted by the emperors from Peter the Great onward, to families like Sheremetev, Stroganov, Orlov and Vorontsov. Baron is mostly Baltic German: von der Pahlen, von Korff, von Rosen. Much of the old gentry, the Naryshkin family among them, held no title at all.
The list sets titled full names beside untitled ones, bare family names in masculine and feminine form, maiden-name entries with née, and a few French salon forms such as Pierre and Nathalie. These are real families, and every entry is a period-style pairing for fiction and games, not genealogy. Noble titles were abolished in Russia in 1917.
How to choose Russian noble names
- Keep the title with its family. Prince fits only a princely house, Count a comital one and Baron a Baltic German one, so moving a title from Count Semyon Antonovich Stroganov onto another surname can produce a rank that family never held.
- Use the given name and patronymic for polite speech. A guest would address Prince Lev Leonidovich Shcherbatov as Lev Leonidovich, with no title and no surname.
- Change the surname for a woman: -ov becomes -ova, -in becomes -ina and -sky becomes -skaya. Bagration, Dadiani, Gudovich and the von names stay as they are.
- Save the French forms for family scenes. Pierre for Pyotr, Lise for Elizaveta and Nathalie for Natalia were drawing-room names, so Lise Obolenskaya suits dialogue and letters while the full form suits narration.
- Search a full name before you publish it. These families gave the same few names to generation after generation, so a new pairing can still match a historical person.
Frequently asked questions
What are some Russian noble last names?
Princely names in the list include Golitsyn, Trubetskoy, Obolensky, Dolgorukov, Gagarin, Kurakin and Volkonsky, and comital names include Sheremetev, Stroganov, Orlov, Vorontsov and Razumovsky. Untitled old families such as Naryshkin, Pushchin and Bakunin and Baltic names such as von Lieven and von Rosen are there too. Each family name can be used alone, and many are also given in the feminine form.
Which Russian families were princes and which were counts?
Prince was mostly an inherited title of old ruling lines, so it belongs to houses such as Golitsyn, Dolgorukov and Vyazemsky and to Georgian families such as Bagration. Count was a newer title granted by the emperors, held by families such as Sheremetev, Stroganov and Panin. The list gives each title only to a family of that rank.
How does the patronymic work in a noble name?
The patronymic is made from the father's given name, with -ovich or -evich for a son and -ovna or -evna for a daughter. Count Semyon Antonovich Stroganov is the son of an Anton, and Countess Daria Leonidovna Orlova is the daughter of a Leonid.
Are these the names of real historical people?
The families are real, but the given names and patronymics were paired with them for this list and are not taken from any family tree. A match with a real person can still happen, because these families reused the same names for generations. No member of the last imperial family appears, and Romanov is listed only as a bare surname.
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All 500 Russian noble names
A: 59 names
- Adelaida Olenina, née Odoevskaya
- Adelaida Platonovna Perovskaya
- Adelaida Zagryazhskaya
- Adrian Novosiltsev
- Adrian Platonovich Tenishev
- Afanasy Bakunin
- Afanasy Borisovich Muravyov
- Afanasy Emmanuilovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov
- Aglaya Georgievna Annenkova
- Aglaya Raevskaya
- Aglaya Vsevolodovna Talyzina
- Aglaya Yushkova
- Agrafena Erastovna Zinovieva
- Agrafena Gagarina, née Passek
A, continued
- Agrafena Olenina
- Agrafena Platonovna Belosselskaya-Belozerskaya
- Agrippina Andreyevna Novosiltseva
- Agrippina Cherkasskaya, née Bakhmeteva
- Agrippina Myatleva
- Agrippina Yuryevna Tenisheva
- Aksakov
- Aleksandra Adrianovna Bibikova
- Aleksandra Borisovna Pushchina
- Aleksey Yakovlevich Khitrovo
- Alexandre Yushkov
- Aline Shcherbatova
- Amilakhvari
- Anastasia Anatolyevna Dolgorukova
- Anastasia Matveyevna Davydova
A, continued
- Anastasia Volkonskaya
- Anatoly Mikhailovich Kolychev
- Anatoly Orlov
- André Pashkov
- Andrey Kirillovich Yushkov
- Anna Osipovna Rimskaya-Korsakova
- Anna Viktorovna Pashkova
- Annette Kolycheva
- Anton Orestovich Obolensky
- Anton Panin
- Anton Semyonovich Bakunin
- Antonina Bezobrazova, née Golovkina
- Antonina Golovina
- Antonina Ippolitovna Golovkina
- Antonina Panina
A, continued
- Apollinaria Leonidovna Uvarova
- Apollinaria Massalskaya
- Apollinaria Yevgrafovna Golovnina
- Apollinaria Yusupova, née Saburova
- Apollon Anatolyevich Naryshkin
- Apollon Georgievich Izmailov
- Apollon Olsufyev
- Arkady Fyodorovich Chicherin
- Arkady Leonidovich Lopukhin
- Arkady Modestovich Panin
- Arkady Olenin
- Avdotya Dmitrievna Gudovich
- Avdotya Kropotkina
- Avdotya Matveyevna Yushkova
- Avdotya Vyazemskaya, née Repnina
B: 50 names
- Bagration
- Balashov
- Barbe Meshcherskaya
- Baron Eduard Fyodorovich von Krüdener
- Baron Eduard von Meyendorff
- Baron Ferdinand von Maydell
- Baron Fyodor Pavlovich von Lieven
- Baron Georgy Khristoforovich von der Pahlen
- Baron Georgy von Korff
- Baron Gustav Karlovich von Nolcken
- Baron Karl von Krüdener
- Baron Khristofor von Rosen
B, continued
- Baron Magnus Eduardovich von Korff
- Baron Magnus von Engelhardt
- Baron Moritz Ottovich von Knorring
- Baron Moritz von Tiesenhausen
- Baron Nikolay von Uexküll
- Baron Pavel Eduardovich von Vietinghoff
- Baron Pavel von der Osten-Sacken
- Baron Reinhold Gustavovich von Wrangel
- Baron Reinhold von Nolcken
- Baron Woldemar von Stackelberg
- Baron Yegor von der Pahlen
- Baroness Amalia Ferdinandovna von Wolff
- Baroness Avgusta von der Pahlen
B, continued
- Baroness Dorothea Ferdinandovna von Ungern-Sternberg
- Baroness Dorothea von Wolff
- Baroness Eleonora Pavlovna von Maydell
- Baroness Eleonora von Meyendorff
- Baroness Emilia von Uexküll
- Baroness Henrietta von Budberg
- Baroness Karolina Ottovna von der Pahlen
- Baroness Karolina von Campenhausen
- Baroness Luiza Karlovna von Vietinghoff
- Baroness Sharlotta Yegorovna von Knorring
- Baroness Sofia von Maydell
- Baroness Wilhelmina von der Osten-Sacken
B, continued
- Baroness Yulia von Taube
- Baryatinsky
- Basile Neledinsky-Meletsky
- Beklemishev
- Belosselskaya-Belozerskaya
- Belosselsky-Belozersky
- Bibikov
- Bludov
- Bobrinskaya
- Boris Rimsky-Korsakov
- Boris Rostislavovich Arsenyev
- Boris Vasilyevich Polivanov
- Buturlin
C: 55 names
- Catiche Pashkova
- Catiche Tutolmina
- Chavchavadze
- Cherkassky
- Chernyshev
- Count Afanasy Andreyevich Orlov
- Count Aleksey Ippolitovich Panin
- Count Andrey Kirillovich Golovkin
- Count Anton Vsevolodovich Zubov
- Count Boris Georgievich Bludov
- Count Dmitry Yevgenyevich Orlov-Davydov
- Count Erast Modestovich Rumyantsev
- Count Fyodor Yakovlevich Tatishchev
C, continued
- Count Grigory Lvovich Ignatiev
- Count Ippolit Rostislavovich Bobrinsky
- Count Konstantin Yuryevich Perovsky
- Count Leonid Gavrilovich Chernyshev
- Count Lev Adrianovich Apraksin
- Count Modest Emmanuilovich Zavadovsky
- Count Nikita Borisovich Lanskoy
- Count Nikolay Konstantinovich Gudovich
- Count Pavel Leonidovich Razumovsky
- Count Pyotr Arkadyevich Kutaisov
- Count Roman Vladimirovich Protasov
- Count Rostislav Stepanovich Saltykov
- Count Semyon Antonovich Stroganov
- Count Valerian Alekseyevich Kiselev
C, continued
- Count Yevgeny Pavlovich Komarovsky
- Count Yevgraf Valerianovich Mordvinov
- Count Zakhar Illarionovich Uvarov
- Countess Adelaida Antonovna Orlova-Davydova
- Countess Agrafena Vladimirovna Komarovskaya
- Countess Agrippina Adrianovna Protasova
- Countess Aleksandra Yevgenyevna Bobrinskaya
- Countess Anastasia Yevgrafovna Kiseleva
- Countess Anna Borisovna Uvarova
- Countess Antonina Gavrilovna Kusheleva
- Countess Apollinaria Platonovna Golovkina
- Countess Avdotya Viktorovna Stroganova
- Countess Daria Leonidovna Orlova
- Countess Emilia Kirillovna Perovskaya
C, continued
- Countess Feodosia Aleksandrovna Apraksina
- Countess Glafira Vsevolodovna Sheremeteva
- Countess Kapitolina Filippovna Golovina
- Countess Lidia Andreyevna Ignatieva
- Countess Lyubov Konstantinovna Musina-Pushkina
- Countess Marfa Georgievna Zubova
- Countess Margarita Alekseyevna Rumyantseva
- Countess Natalia Rostislavovna Shuvalova
- Countess Olga Yakovlevna Tatishcheva
- Countess Praskovya Erastovna Vorontsova
- Countess Serafima Stepanovna Razumovskaya
- Countess Varvara Yuryevna Chernysheva
- Countess Yekaterina Afanasyevna Saltykova
- Countess Zinaida Ippolitovna Gudovich
D: 6 names
- Dadiani
- Daria Kirillovna Panina
- Daria Viktorovna Rostopchina
- Davydov
- Dmitry Vsevolodovich Kushelev
- Dolgorukov
E: 13 names
- Elizaveta Borisovna Pushchina
- Elizaveta Nikitichna Obolenskaya
- Emilia Arkadyevna Orlova
- Emilia Orlova-Davydova
- Emmanuil Kushelev
- Emmanuil Nikolayevich Gudovich
- Emmanuil Sergeyevich Shepelev
- Engalychev
- Erast Apollonovich Talyzin
- Erast Grigoryevich Tuchkov
- Erast Naryshkin
- Eugène Kutaisov
- Eugène Talyzin
F: 6 names
- Feodosia Annenkova
- Feodosia Erastovna Shakhovskaya
- Feodosia Yuryevna Aksakova
- Filipp Valerianovich Vsevolozhsky
- Fyodor Antonovich Glebov
- Fyodor Modestovich Beklemishev
G: 21 names
- Gagarin
- Gavriil Glebov
- Gavriil Yevgrafovich Urusov
- Georges Glebov
- Georges Orlov
- Georgy Illarionovich Golovnin
- Georgy Pashkov
- Georgy Yakovlevich Yermolov
- Glafira Emmanuilovna Neledinskaya-Meletskaya
- Glafira Nikitichna Samarina
G, continued
- Glafira Pashkova, née Khovanskaya
- Glafira Pushchina
- Golenishchev-Kutuzov
- Golitsyn
- Golovin
- Golovkin
- Gorchakov
- Gorchakova
- Grigory Anatolyevich Apraksin
- Grigory Nikitich Odoevsky
- Gudovich
H: 2 names
- Hélène Glebova
- Hélène Nashchokina
I: 8 names
- Illarion Talyzin
- Ippolit Beklemishev
- Ippolit Kirillovich Zinoviev
- Irina Dolgorukova
- Irina Lobanova-Rostovskaya, née Shepeleva
- Irina Nikolayevna Musina-Pushkina
- Ivan Vsevolodovich Bezobrazov
- Izmailov
J: 1 name
- Julie Kvashnina-Samarina
K: 28 names
- Kapitolina Anatolyevna Izmailova
- Kapitolina Bakhmeteva
- Kapitolina Ivanovna Passek
- Kapitolina Khovanskaya, née Raevskaya
- Kapitolina Vsevolodovna Tuchkova
- Khitrovo
- Khovansky
- Kirill Borisovich Kiselev
- Kirill Samarin
- Kiselev
- Kleopatra Antonovna Novosiltseva
- Kleopatra Bakhmeteva, née Yazykova
- Kleopatra Golenishcheva-Kutuzova
- Kleopatra Nikolayevna Prozorovskaya
K, continued
- Kolychev
- Komarovsky
- Konstantin Nikitich Chernyshev
- Konstantin Platonovich Lvov
- Konstantin Saburov
- Kozlovsky
- Kropotkin
- Ksenia Apollonovna Bakunina
- Ksenia Kvashnina-Samarina
- Ksenia Pushchina
- Ksenia Vladimirovna Tutolmina
- Kurakin
- Kushelev
- Kutaisov
L: 17 names
- Lanskoy
- Leonid Adrianovich Kvashnin-Samarin
- Leonid Matveyevich Orlov
- Lev Romanovich Annenkov
- Lev Stepanovich Sukhovo-Kobylin
- Lidia Leonidovna Stroganova
- Lidia Modestovna Yusupova
- Lidia Raevskaya
L, continued
- Lidia Shakhovskaya, née Meshcherskaya
- Lili Novosiltseva
- Lise Obolenskaya
- Lobanov-Rostovsky
- Lvov
- Lyubov Samarina, née Tenisheva
- Lyubov Stepanovna Putyatina
- Lyubov Tsitsianova
- Lyubov Yakovlevna Massalskaya
M: 24 names
- Marfa Beklemisheva
- Marfa Gavrilovna Kologrivova
- Marfa Razumovskaya
- Marfa Tuchkova, née Saltykova
- Marfa Yakovlevna Kiseleva
- Margarita Buturlina
- Margarita Valerianovna Glebova
- Margarita Zagryazhskaya, née Lvova
- Maria Orestovna Golovina
- Marie Buturlina
- Massalsky
- Matvey Afanasyevich Rimsky-Korsakov
M, continued
- Matvey Ippolitovich Kvashnin-Samarin
- Matvey Meshchersky
- Meshchersky
- Michel Razumovsky
- Mikhail Viktorovich Kologrivov
- Mimi Izmailova
- Modest Apollonovich Golovkin
- Modest Odoevsky
- Modest Viktorovich Komarovsky
- Mordvinov
- Muravyov
- Musin-Pushkin
N: 12 names
- Nadezhda Antonovna Polivanova
- Nadezhda Fyodorovna Shepeleva
- Nadezhda Tsitsianova, née Shuvalova
- Nadine Arsenyeva
- Nadine Komarovskaya
- Naryshkin
- Nathalie Kropotkina
- Neledinskaya-Meletskaya
- Nicolas Lopukhin
- Nikita Ippolitovich Olenin
- Nikita Matveyevich Khovansky
- Nikita Sukhovo-Kobylin
O: 17 names
- Obolensky
- Odoevskaya
- Odoevsky
- Olenin
- Olga Illarionovna Lopukhina
- Olimpiada Alekseyevna Volkonskaya
- Olimpiada Golovnina
- Olimpiada Sheremeteva
O, continued
- Olimpiada Tuchkova
- Olsufyev
- Orbeliani
- Orest Davydov
- Orest Osipovich Saburov
- Orest Yevgenyevich Kropotkin
- Orlov
- Osip Grigoryevich Lanskoy
- Osip Izmailov
P: 69 names
- Panin
- Paul Arsenyev
- Paul Pleshcheev
- Pauline Polivanova
- Pavel Arkadyevich Kozlovsky
- Pavel Konstantinovich Samarin
- Perovsky
- Pierre Muravyov
- Platon Petrovich Baryatinsky
- Platon Romanovich Davydov
- Platon Zavadovsky
- Pleshcheev
- Polivanov
P, continued
- Praskovya Filippovna Likhacheva
- Praskovya Konstantinovna Mansurova
- Prince Adrian Emmanuilovich Prozorovsky
- Prince Anatoly Modestovich Trubetskoy
- Prince Andrey Adrianovich Svyatopolk-Mirsky
- Prince Anton Georgievich Repnin
- Prince Arkady Gavrilovich Belosselsky-Belozersky
- Prince Boris Erastovich Gagarin
- Prince Filipp Zakharovich Yusupov
- Prince Illarion Grigoryevich Gorchakov
- Prince Irakly Georgievich Chavchavadze
- Prince Konstantin Zakharovich Orbeliani
- Prince Leonid Yuryevich Kropotkin
- Prince Lev Leonidovich Shcherbatov
P, continued
- Prince Matvey Ippolitovich Volkonsky
- Prince Modest Yakovlevich Obolensky
- Prince Nikita Osipovich Golitsyn
- Prince Nikolay Konstantinovich Kozlovsky
- Prince Orest Platonovich Dolgorukov
- Prince Sergey Viktorovich Kurakin
- Prince Vasily Kirillovich Vyazemsky
- Prince Viktor Nikitich Tsitsianov
- Prince Vsevolod Mikhailovich Massalsky
- Prince Yevgraf Alekseyevich Tenishev
- Prince Zakhar Apollonovich Urusov
- Prince Zakhar Georgievich Bagration
- Prince Zakhar Nikolayevich Amilakhvari
- Princess Aglaya Fyodorovna Yusupova
P, continued
- Princess Agrippina Nikolayevna Kozlovskaya
- Princess Aleksandra Semyonovna Vyazemskaya
- Princess Anastasia Sergeyevna Meshcherskaya
- Princess Apollinaria Romanovna Gorchakova
- Princess Elena Georgievna Orbeliani
- Princess Elizaveta Konstantinovna Lvova
- Princess Emilia Matveyevna Obolenskaya
- Princess Glafira Platonovna Lobanova-Rostovskaya
- Princess Kleopatra Arkadyevna Tenisheva
- Princess Ksenia Orestovna Baryatinskaya
- Princess Lyubov Zakharovna Gagarina
- Princess Marfa Antonovna Kurakina
- Princess Margarita Emmanuilovna Volkonskaya
- Princess Maria Konstantinovna Chavchavadze
P, continued
- Princess Nadezhda Modestovna Shcherbatova
- Princess Natalia Stepanovna Odoevskaya
- Princess Olimpiada Yevgenyevna Belosselskaya-Belozerskaya
- Princess Serafima Anatolyevna Putyatina
- Princess Tamara Zakharovna Dadiani
- Princess Varvara Yakovlevna Svyatopolk-Mirskaya
- Princess Varvara Zakharovna Bagration
- Princess Yevgenia Pavlovna Khovanskaya
- Princess Yulia Afanasyevna Massalskaya
- Princess Zinaida Adrianovna Tsitsianova
- Protasov
- Prozorovsky
- Putyatin
- Pyotr Erastovich Golenishchev-Kutuzov
R: 13 names
- Razumovsky
- Repnin
- Repnina
- Rimsky-Korsakov
- Roman Lopukhin
- Roman Yevgenyevich Kutaisov
- Romanov
- Romanova
- Rostislav Filippovich Volkonsky
- Rostislav Fyodorovich Durnovo
- Rostislav Sukhovo-Kobylin
- Rostopchin
- Rumyantsev
S: 18 names
- Semyon Orestovich Lopukhin
- Semyon Tutolmin
- Serafima Bludova
- Serafima Lvovna Zagryazhskaya
- Serafima Nashchokina, née Olsufyeva
- Serafima Sergeyevna Kutaisova
- Serge Kozlovsky
- Sergey Afanasyevich Shakhovskoy
- Shakhovskoy
S, continued
- Shcherbatov
- Shepelev
- Sheremetev
- Shuvalov
- Sofia Filippovna Saltykova
- Stepan Antonovich Buturlin
- Stepan Kologrivov
- Stroganov
- Svyatopolk-Mirsky
T: 10 names
- Talyzin
- Tatiana Kirillovna Neledinskaya-Meletskaya
- Tatiana Kutaisova
- Tatiana Petrovna Cherkasskaya
- Tatishchev
- Tenishev
- Trubetskoy
- Tsitsianov
- Tsitsianova
- Tuchkov
U: 2 names
- Urusov
- Uvarov
V: 28 names
- Valerian Emmanuilovich Olenin
- Valerian Pavlovich Pleshcheev
- Varvara Afanasyevna Urusova
- Varvara Illarionovna Orlova-Davydova
- Vera Adrianovna Vsevolozhskaya
- Vera Bludova, née Ignatieva
- Vera Likhacheva
- Vera Rostislavovna Gorchakova
- Viktor Orestovich Uvarov
- Viktor Perovsky
- Vladimir Lvovich Mansurov
- Volkonsky
- von Benckendorff
- von Campenhausen
V, continued
- von der Osten-Sacken
- von Engelhardt
- von Krüdener
- von Lieven
- von Rosen
- von Stackelberg
- von Taube
- von Tiesenhausen
- von Ungern-Sternberg
- von Wolff
- Vorontsov
- Vsevolod Tatishchev
- Vsevolozhskaya
- Vyazemsky
Y: 29 names
- Yakov Alekseyevich Balashov
- Yakov Neledinsky-Meletsky
- Yazykov
- Yazykova
- Yekaterina Gavrilovna Pashkova
- Yekaterina Stepanovna Kozlovskaya
- Yelena Semyonovna Engalycheva
- Yelena Valerianovna Arsenyeva
- Yermolova
- Yevdokia Arsenyeva
- Yevdokia Beklemisheva, née Samarina
- Yevdokia Romanovna Yazykova
- Yevdokia Rostislavovna Bludova
- Yevgenia Bakunina
Y, continued
- Yevgenia Grigoryevna Balashova
- Yevgenia Romanovna Beklemisheva
- Yevgeny Muravyov
- Yevgeny Yevgrafovich Nashchokin
- Yevgraf Arkadyevich Golitsyn
- Yevgraf Gavrilovich Olsufyev
- Yevgraf Konstantinovich Tsitsianov
- Yevgraf Rumyantsev
- Yulia Dmitrievna Ignatieva
- Yulia Myatleva, née Baryatinskaya
- Yulia Svyatopolk-Mirskaya
- Yulia Yevgenyevna Polivanova
- Yury Durnovo
- Yury Erastovich Sukhovo-Kobylin
- Yusupov