๐ How Rare Are You in Russia?
๐ท๐บ Genetic Landscape of Russia
Russia spans 11 time zones and contains over 190 ethnic groups โ from Slavic Russians in the west to Yakut and Buryat peoples in Siberia with East Asian features. The genetic range is staggering. Ethnic Russians typically show Northern European traits (light eyes, fair hair), but the country's indigenous Siberian, Caucasian, and Central Asian populations add enormous diversity. What makes Russia unique is this fusion of European and Asian genetic heritage across the world's largest landmass.
A Russian name states a relationship before it states anything else. Every citizen has a patronymic built from the father's given name, so an Ivan whose father was Sergei is Ivan Sergeyevich for life, and the surname itself changes ending with the bearer's sex โ Ivanov and Ivanova belong to the same household. Geography sorted out the rest. Settlement followed the rivers and later the Trans-Siberian railway, leaving stretches of forest and tundra so wide that a single village could stay effectively on its own for generations. Old Believer families who fled the seventeenth-century church schism went deepest of all, and their descendants are scattered today from the Altai to Alaska, Oregon and South America.
๐๏ธ The census question 16,594,759 people did not answer
Russia's 2020 census, taken as of 1 October 2021, counted 147,182,123 people. Nationality was one of the questions, and the totals published for it do not cover everyone who was counted: 16,594,759 of those people have a census form with no answer to the nationality question on it. A further 542,201 answered that they have no nationality, which is counted on a line of its own rather than folded into a group.
That is worth holding on to before reading any percentage about Russia. A share of a population is partly a count and partly a filing decision: what you divide by depends on what the statistical office does with the blank answers and the answers that fit nowhere. More on how we treat numbers at Data Sources.
๐๏ธ Eye Color
| Blue | 25% |
| Gray | 17% |
| Green | 12% |
| Brown | 30% |
| Hazel | 16% |
๐ Hair Color
| Brown | 35% |
| Dark Brown | 25% |
| Blonde | 22% |
| Black | 10% |
| Red | 4% |
| Gray | 4% |
๐ฉธ Blood Type
| O+ | 33% |
| A+ | 30% |
| B+ | 10% |
| AB+ | 6% |
| O- | 7% |
| A- | 8% |
| B- | 3% |
| AB- | 3% |
Trait frequencies on this page come from public and institutional datasets โ see Data Sources.
🧮 Calculate Your Rarity in Russia
Pick your eye colour, hair colour and blood type. The calculator uses Russia's own figures from the tables above, not world averages.
This is an estimate, not a measurement. It multiplies three national frequencies as if they were independent, and they are not: eye and hair colour share pigmentation genes, so a combination that tends to run together, such as blue eyes with blonde hair, is more common than the multiplication suggests, while one that rarely does, such as blue eyes with black hair, is rarer. Blood type is independent of both. The frequencies are national averages from public datasets — see Data Sources.
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โ๏ธ A people defined by a number: fewer than 50,000
Russian law puts arithmetic inside the definition of a people. Federal Law 82-FZ of 30 April 1999 defines the small-numbered indigenous peoples of the Russian Federation as groups living in the territories where their ancestors traditionally settled, keeping traditional ways of life, economic activity and crafts, numbering fewer than 50,000 persons in Russia, and aware of themselves as distinct ethnic communities. The qualifying groups sit on one list approved by the Government. Dagestan is handled on its own terms: the republic's highest official, who heads its executive branch, determines the numerical and other particulars of its indigenous peoples, and those go on to the federal list.
Since 2020 the law counts individuals too. Article 7.1, introduced by Federal Law 11-FZ of 6 February 2020 and partly in force from 7 February 2022, sets up a list of persons belonging to these peoples. It records name, date and place of birth, address, identity document, the name of the people and details of traditional activity, among other things. Nobody is entered automatically โ you apply, with documents.
โ๏ธ Two surnames, two words, one order for the siblings
When a child's parents hold different surnames, the registry statute โ Federal Law 143-FZ on civil status acts, article 18 โ lets the child be recorded under the father's surname, the mother's, or a double surname made by joining the two. The parents choose the sequence themselves; the law says the two may be joined in any order. The double surname may be no more than two words, written with a hyphen. And once a family has picked an order it is stuck with it: changing the sequence between full brothers and sisters is not permitted.
The same article limits the given name. It may not contain digits, alphanumeric designations, numerals, symbols or any combination of them, and it may not contain profanity. Where the parents cannot agree on the name or the surname, the entry is made as the guardianship and trusteeship authority directs. Rules like these decide how many distinct names can exist at all, which is the arithmetic behind name rarity.
โญ Rare Facts About Russia
Where the Russian figures on this page come from
The population figure belongs to Rosstat, the Federal State Statistics Service, whose 2020 census โ taken as of 1 October 2021 โ counted 147,182,123 people; the tile above shows a different, rounder number. The eye, hair and blood-type percentages are not official statistics. We found no Russian state body that publishes them, so read them as estimates drawn from research samples rather than counts. Country mean heights generally come from the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration's pooled population-based studies. Last checked September 2026.