Marjan
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Marjan is a given name, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: coral.
- SESweden1 in 14K◐
- KEKenya1 in 21K
- PHPhilippines1 in 48K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈17K ●
- 3 ●
- Sources
- 196 ●
- 1 in 193 ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
61K records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Maryan in US United States, BR Brazil, GB United Kingdom and 12 more and Mary-An in PH Philippines.
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●
coral
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | — | 10,918△ | 150 rec. | 1 in 193 | 11K | Marjan | 26 |
| PH Philippines | — | 3,491 | 2.8K rec. | — | — | Mary-An | 25 |
| IR Iran | — | 2,912 | 2.2K rec. | — | — | Marjan | 46 |
| US United States | — | 2,457 | 26K rec. | 1 in 135K | 2.5K | Maryan | 196 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,397 | 2.3K rec. | — | — | Marjan | 106 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 2,205 | 2K rec. | — | listed | Maryan | 61 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,738 | 1.7K rec. | — | 1 | Marjan | 91 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,612 | 0 rec. | 1 in 2.6K | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| KE Kenya | — | 1,397 | 756 rec. | — | — | Maryan | 27 |
| CA Canada | — | 1,242 | 1.1K rec. | — | 2 | Maryan | 57 |
| EG Egypt | — | 785 | 268 rec. | — | — | Maryan | 35 |
| TR Türkiye | — | 777 | 1.1K rec. | — | — | Marjan | 10 |
Roughly 11K people in Slovenia bear this name (about 1 in 193). 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●
- Hungarian24K19%
- English22K17%
- Dutch17K13%
- Western Frisian16K12%
- Croatian12K9%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 24,416 | 19% |
| English | 21,625 | 17% |
| Dutch | 17,011 | 13% |
| Western Frisian | 15,582 | 12% |
| Croatian | 11,832 | 9% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Marjan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, small pearls, corals
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, Coral; jewel-like, precious.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Finnish, genitive singular of marja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1922 | 1 |
| 1923 | 1 |
| 1925 | 3 |
| 1926 | 2 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1930 | 3 |
| 1931 | 3 |
| 1932 | 5 |
| 1933 | 7 |
| 1934 | 6 |
| 1935 | 4 |
| 1936 | 5 |
| 1937 | 2 |
| 1938 | 8 |
| 1939 | 6 |
| 1940 | 3 |
| 1941 | 2 |
| 1942 | 5 |
| 1943 | 8 |
| 1944 | 2 |
| 1945 | 5 |
| 1946 | 7 |
| 1947 | 4 |
| 1948 | 7 |
| 1949 | 6 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 2 |
| 1952 | 6 |
| 1953 | 6 |
| 1954 | 9 |
| 1955 | 10 |
| 1956 | 5 |
| 1957 | 9 |
| 1958 | 10 |
| 1959 | 16 |
| 1960 | 19 |
| 1961 | 18 |
| 1962 | 21 |
| 1963 | 19 |
| 1964 | 11 |
| 1965 | 17 |
| 1966 | 15 |
| 1967 | 24 |
| 1968 | 13 |
| 1969 | 21 |
| 1970 | 7 |
| 1971 | 18 |
| 1972 | 11 |
| 1973 | 10 |
| 1974 | 16 |
| 1975 | 14 |
| 1976 | 15 |
| 1977 | 10 |
| 1978 | 9 |
| 1979 | 14 |
| 1980 | 8 |
| 1981 | 17 |
| 1982 | 14 |
| 1983 | 13 |
| 1984 | 12 |
| 1985 | 10 |
| 1986 | 5 |
| 1987 | 6 |
| 1988 | 12 |
| 1989 | 8 |
| 1990 | 5 |
| 1991 | 5 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 6 |
| 1994 | 4 |
| 1995 | 5 |
| 1996 | 5 |
| 1997 | 4 |
| 1998 | 3 |
| 1999 | 3 |
| 2000 | 3 |
| 2001 | 3 |
| 2003 | 5 |
| 2005 | 5 |
| 2006 | 2 |
| 2008 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 |
| 2010 | 2 |
| 2011 | 4 |
| 2012 | 1 |
| 2014 | 3 |
| 2015 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 |
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 |
XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 92 years between 1922–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Marian Zdziechowskib. 1861RUnot in their usual namePolish philosopher (1861–1938)
- Marian Kropyvnytskyib. 1903UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian painter
- Marjan Rožancb. 1930SISlovenian writer (1930–1990)
- Marjan Kandusb. 1931SISlovenian basketball player (1931–2024)
- Marjan Luifb. 1947NLDutch actress (born 1947)
- Marjan van den Bergb. 1955NLDutch journalist
- Marjan Pejoskib. 1968MKMacedonian fashion designer
- Persia Peleb. 1974IRnot in their usual namePersian pornographic actress (born 1974)
- Marjan Neshatb. 1975IRIranian actress
- Marjan Šarecb. 1977SI9th Prime Minister of Slovenia
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 62 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 11K | #13 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 11K | #18 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6.7K | #546 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.6K | #414 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #8,515 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.3K | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 674 | #942 |
| AL Albania | INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts) | — | 494 | #929 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 460 | #2,938 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 307 | #8,515 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 251 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 214 | #4,571 |
Reference works 4
- 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 · 380 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Marjan?
- We estimate roughly 17 thousand people bear Marjan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Marjan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 11 thousand people bear Marjan in Slovenia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled marjan.
- Where is Marjan most common?
- Marjan is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 193 people carrying it.
- How common is Marjan compared with other names?
- In Afghanistan, Marjan is the 361st most common given name of 22,039 given names recorded there.
- Is Marjan a male or female name?
- Marjan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- What does the name Marjan mean?
- Recorded meaning: coral
Query this name via API
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About this data
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, “Marjan” — the 361st most common given name in Afghanistan. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.