This section lists females who gave birth to at least russian woman gives birth to 16 pairs of twins children. Numbers in bold and italics are likely to be inexact, some of them having been recorded before the 19th century. Due to the fact that females bear the children and therefore cannot reproduce as often as males, their records are often shared with or exceeded by their partners.

Vassilyev and his first wife are alleged to hold the record for the most children a couple has parented. 1725 and 1765, a total of 27 births. 67 of the 69 children were said to have survived infancy. A Tuscan woman named Gravata gave birth to a total of 62 live children.

The first wife of peasant Yakov Kirillov from the village of Vvedensky, Russia, gave birth to 57 children in a total of 21 births. She had four sets of quadruplets, seven sets of triplets and ten sets of twins. All of the children were alive in 1755, when Kirillov, aged 60, was presented at court. As with the Vassilyev case, the truth of these claims has not been established, and is highly improbable.

She had one set of septuplets, one set of sextuplets, four sets of triplets and five sets of twins. Nineteen of the children were stillborn, the eldest surviving was eight years old in 1498. City of Nocera, Italy, who married at age 28, had given birth to 52 living and dead children, 49 being males, by 1886. Sanctis, of Nocera, stated that she had 15 sets of triplets. Elizabeth Mott of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire, married in 1676 and produced 42 live-born children. 41st child of his mother Alice Hookes, but there were no further details. The family consisted of 7 sons and 32 daughters.