Matjaz

Name: Matjaz: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Matjaz is a given name, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Slovenian, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common

SISlovenia1 in 225◐
BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 12K
RSSerbia1 in 78K

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

: ≈9.4K ●
Sources: 85 ●
: 1 in 225 ◐

Spellings & scripts●

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Matjaž1.1K

Locally spelled Matjaž in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Matjaz is recorded, by country
Country						Most common spelling	Sources
SI Slovenia	#26	9,342△	1.1K rec.	1 in 225	9.3K	Matjaz	85
US United States	—	283	221 rec.	—	—	Matjaz	50
DE Germany	—	246	197 rec.	—	—	Matjaz	41
GB United Kingdom	—	77	35 rec.	—	—	Matjaz	13
AT Austria	—	75	28 rec.	—	4	Matjaz	18
AU Australia	—	41	38 rec.	—	—	Matjaz	11
RS Serbia	—	41	1 rec.	—	—	Matjaž	2
IT Italy	—	38	34 rec.	—	—	Matjaz	13
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina	—	37	0 rec.	—	—	Matjaž	2
CH Switzerland	—	28	18 rec.	—	8	Matjaz	11
NL Netherlands	—	25	21 rec.	—	—	Matjaz	6
HR Croatia	—	22	110 rec.	1 in 192K	25	Matjaž	14
FI Finland	—	14	0 rec.	1 in 398K	40	—	1
BE Belgium	—	12	11 rec.	—	—	Matjaz	4
ES Spain	—	10	4 rec.	—	—	Matjaz	7
BR Brazil	—	10	3 rec.	—	—	Matjaz	5
PL Poland	—	8	—	1 in 4.8M	8	—	—
CO Colombia	—	6	3 rec.	—	—	Matjaz	3
SE Sweden	—	5	4 rec.	1 in 2M	5	—	3
AR Argentina	—	5	3 rec.	—	—	Matjaz	3
PT Portugal	—	5	2 rec.	—	—	Matjaz	2
IS Iceland	—	1	—	1 in 351K	1	—	—
LV Latvia	—	—	—	—	1	—	—
EE Estonia	—	—	2 rec.	—	listed	—	1

Roughly 9.3K people in Slovenia bear this name (about 1 in 225). 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●

Hungarian19K89%
Slovenian1K5%
English3792%
German2971%
Croatian1741%

Show as table

Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
Hungarian	19,041	89%
Slovenian	1,049	5%
English	379	2%
German	297	1%
Croatian	174	1%

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◐

Matjaz is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

French given name97 records spelled Matjaz2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, Slovenia
Also written Matjaž
Finnish given name65 records spelled Matjaz5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Finland, Slovenia
Languages: Finnish, Estonian
Also written Matjaž, Matjäž
Russian surname52 records spelled Matjaz14 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Türkiye
Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek
Also written Матяж, Матьяж, Matyazh, Matjaž
a separate given name50 records spelled Matjaz3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Slovenia
Also written Matjaž, Matjaz̆
Polish given name49 records spelled Matjaz2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Poland, Slovenia
Also written Matjaž
Arabic given name35 records spelled Matjaz2 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Slovenia
Also written Matjaž
Slovak given name29 records spelled Matjaz4 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Slovakia, Slovenia, Czechia
Languages: Slovak, Czech
Also written Matjaž
a separate name25 records spelled Matjaz6 spellings in the group
Also written Matjaž

24 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.

Evidence●

Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.

Official registers attesting Matjaz
Country	Register	Year	Count	Rank
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	23	#22,773
FI Finland	DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)	—	15	#38,123
CH Switzerland	BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames)	2024	8	#72,019
SE Sweden	Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)	—	5	#46,201
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)	2001	4	#797
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)	2001	1	#1,378
LV Latvia	PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup)	—	1	#105,362
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)	1996	1	#1,057
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)	1993	1	#919
AT Austria	Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)	1985	1	#729
EE Estonia	Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023	2023	—	—

Reference works 1

Wikipedia given-name tokens

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

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Matjaz?: We estimate roughly 9.4 thousand people bear Matjaz (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Matjaz have the most bearers?: We estimate about 9.3 thousand people bear Matjaz in Slovenia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled matjaz.
Where is Matjaz most common?: Matjaz is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 225 people carrying it.
How common is Matjaz compared with other names?: In Slovenia, Matjaz is the 26th most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.
Is Matjaz a male or female name?: Matjaz is a male 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.

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About this data

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

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. 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, “Matjaz” — the 26th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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