Yevseyev (; masculine) or Yevseyeva (; feminine) is a Russian surname.Ganzhina, p. 12 Variants of this surname include Avseyev/Avseyeva (/), Avseyenko (), Avseykin/Avseykina (/), Avsyukov/Avsyukova (/), Aseyev/Aseyeva (/), Yevsevenko (), Yevsevyev/Yevsevyeva (/), Yevseyenko (), Yevseichev/Yevseicheva (/), Yevseykin/Yevseykina (/), Yevsenov/Yevsenova (/), Yevsyonochkin/Yevsyonochkina (/), Ovseyev/Ovseyeva (/), and Ovsiyenko ().
All these surnames derive from various forms of the Christian male first name Yevsevy, or its colloquial form Yevsey (or AvseyFedosyuk, entry on "Авсеев" .), which is of Greek origins where it means pious, devout.
Surnames Yevsikov/Yevsikova (/), Yevsyukov/Yevsyukova (/), Yevsyunin/Yevsyunina (/), Yevsyutin/Yevsyutina (/), Yevsyutkin/Yevsyutkina (/), Yevsyukhin/Yevsyukhina (/), Yevsyushin/Yevsyushina (/), and Yevsyushkin/Yevsyushkina (/) may have derived either from "Yevsey", or from Christian male first names Yevstafy or Yevstigney.
People with the surname Alexey Yevseyev (b. 1994), Russian association football player Denis Yevseyev (b. 1993), Kazakh tennis player Inna Yevseyeva (b. 1964), Soviet female middle distance runner Nikolay Yevseyev (b. 1966), Russian Olympic swimmer Vadim Evseev (Vadim Yevseyev) (b. 1976), Russian association football player Vasyl Yevseyev (1962–2010), Ukrainian association football coach and player Vladimir Yevseyev (1939–2012), Soviet rower Vladislav Evseev (Yevseyev) (b. 1984), Russian ice hockey player Willi Evseev (Yevseyev) (b. 1992), German association football player Yekaterina Yevseyeva (b. 1988), Kazakhstani high jumper Yevhen Yevseyev (b. 1987), Ukrainian association football player
Toponyms Yevseyev (rural locality), a rural locality (a khutor) in Krasnogvardeysky District of Belgorod Oblast, Russia
See also Yevseyevo, several rural localities in Russia
References Notes
Sources И. М. Ганжина (I. M. Ganzhina). "Словарь современных русских фамилий" (Dictionary of Modern Russian Last Names). Москва, 2001. Ю. А. Федосюк (Yu. A. Fedosyuk). "Русские фамилии: популярный этимологический словарь" (Russian Last Names: a Popular Etymological Dictionary). Москва, 2006.