Marijan

given name · Croatian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Marijan is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Croatia it is the 34th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., serbische, kroatische, slowenische Form von.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 211◐
  • SISlovenia1 in 878
  • USUnited States1 in 5.8K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈261K ●

across 18 countries

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
112 ●

57K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 145 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

MarijanLatin · Croatian●133K records
МаријанCyrillic · Macedonian●379 records
ᲛარიჯანGeorgian · Georgian●63 records

Locally spelled Marianne in SE Sweden, NO Norway, NL Netherlands and Маријан in MK North Macedonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in German

männl. Vom., serbische, kroatische, slowenische Form von

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Marijan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden—70,241△29 rec.1 in 14570KMarianne6
US United States—57,154△1.3K rec.1 in 5.8K57KMarijan102
FR France—39,905—1 in 1.7K40K——
DK Denmark—25,598—1 in 22926K——
FI Finland—21,169△2 rec.1 in 26326K—5
HR Croatia#3419,99854K rec.1 in 21120KMarijan112
NO Norway—17,446△10 rec.1 in 31367KMarianne8
BR Brazil—4,816—1 in 44K4.8K——
SI Slovenia#1762,396△81 rec.1 in 8782.4KMarijan36
RS Serbia#417710366 rec.——Marijan41
ES Spain—616△9 rec.1 in 81K616—7
MK North Macedonia#846364△7 rec.1 in 5.8K364Маријан15

Roughly 70K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 145). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Croatian133K90%
  • Hungarian5.8K4%
  • German3.5K2%
  • English2K1%
  • French4561%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian133,24890%
Hungarian5,8484%
German3,5292%
English1,9891%
French4561%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Marijan is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name6.9K records spelled Marijan7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Australia

    Languages: German, English, Dutch

    Also written Mari-Jan

43 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

05010015020002005201020152020110 · 2003

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Marijan in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
1999107
2000108
2001107
2002109
2003110
2004110
2005108
2006110
2007107
2008106
2009106
2010106
2011106
2012105
2013103
2014102
2015105
2016107
2017104
2018105
2019104
2020102

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18001850190019502000Marijan Varešanin, b. 1847Marijan Haberle, b. 1908Marijan Brecelj, b. 1910Marijan Oblak, b. 1919Marijan Žužej, b. 1934Marijan Brnčić, b. 1940Marijan Čerček, b. 1949Marijan Pušnik, b. 1960Marjan Mrmić, b. 1965Marijan Antolović, b. 1989

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 38 sources across 22 countries.

Official registers attesting Marijan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202120K#34
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202116K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20083.5K#71
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20093.5K#73
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20103.4K#73
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20113.4K#75
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20123.3K#76
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20133.3K#77
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20143.2K#77
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20153.1K#80
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20163.1K#82
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20173K#86

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 213 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Marijan?
We estimate roughly 261 thousand people bear Marijan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 18 countries in our records.
In which country does Marijan have the most bearers?
We estimate about 70 thousand people bear Marijan in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled marianne.
Where is Marijan most common?
Marijan is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 145 people carrying it.
How common is Marijan compared with other names?
In Croatia, Marijan is the 34th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.
Is Marijan a male or female name?
Marijan is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Marijan mean?
Recorded meaning: männl. Vom., serbische, kroatische, slowenische Form von
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Marijan” — the 34th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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