Mitja

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Mitja is a given name, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 68th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: männl. Vom. russischer Herkunft,.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 316◐
  • FIFinland1 in 15K
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 18K

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

≈7.1K ●

across 11 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
92 ●

1.3K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 316 ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

MitjaLatin · Hungarian●14K records
МитјаCyrillic · Macedonian●1 records

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●

männl. Vom. russischer Herkunft,

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Mitja is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#686,648△633 rec.1 in 3166.6KMitja92
FI Finland—366△8 rec.1 in 15K395Mitja4
US United States—151123 rec.—listedMitja48
IT Italy—6249 rec.—1Mitja22
HR Croatia—4790 rec.1 in 90K47Mitja24
GB United Kingdom—3312 rec.——Mitja15
ES Spain—28268 rec.—229Mitja34
RS Serbia—242 rec.——Mitja2
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina—241 rec.——Mitja4
CH Switzerland—1813 rec.——Mitja9
SE Sweden—12△1 rec.1 in 850K12—2
PL Poland—9—1 in 4.3M9——

Roughly 6.6K people in Slovenia bear this name (about 1 in 316). 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●

  • Hungarian14K67%
  • Finnish1.7K9%
  • Slovenian1.6K8%
  • German1.4K7%
  • Croatian5293%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian13,50167%
Finnish1,7149%
Slovenian1,5738%
German1,4287%
Croatian5293%

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◐

Mitja is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name2.6K records spelled Mitja4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, Slovenia, United States, Austria

    Languages: German, English

    Also written Mitjà, Mitjã

  • a separate name232 records spelled Mitja3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mitjà, Mitjá

  • Portuguese given name195 records spelled Mitja3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Brazil, Finland

    Also written Mitjã, Mitjà

  • a separate given name167 records spelled Mitja3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, United States

    Also written Mitjà, Mitjá

  • Russian given name98 records spelled Mitja36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria

    Languages: Russian, Bulgarian, Ukrainian

    Also written Митя, Мітя, Mitya, Mitia, Митиа

  • Hindi given name95 records spelled Mitja3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Finland

    Also written Mitjà

  • Polish given name74 records spelled Mitja3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Slovenia

    Also written Mitjã, Mitjà

36 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.

Other recorded senses●

Mitja is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Catalan, stocking

    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●

050100150200200020102020153 · 1992

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Mitja in SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register), Slovenia, 1992–2023
Yearrecords
1992153
1993146
1994123
199596
1996102
199794
199895
199966
200052
200166
200240
200343
200440
200528
200620
200719
200819
200922
201012
201114
201211
201314
201411
201511
20166
20175
201812
20195
20205
20215
20225
20238

SI SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) — 32 years between 1992–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

18501900195020002050Mitja Nikisch, b. 1899Samuel Mitja Rapoport, b. 1912Mitja Ribičič, b. 1919Mitya Fomin, b. 1974Mitja Okorn, b. 1981Mitja Mörec, b. 1983Mitja Gasparini, b. 1984Mitja Mežnar, b. 1988Mitja Nikolić, b. 1991Mitja Ilenič, b. 2004

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 33 sources across 20 countries.

Official registers attesting Mitja
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20116.9K#35
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20106.9K#33
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20126.9K#35
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20096.9K#33
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20136.8K#36
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20146.8K#38
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20086.8K#33
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20156.8K#38
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20166.8K#38
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20176.8K#38
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20186.7K#38
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20196.7K#39

Reference works 2

  • 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 · 109 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mitja?
We estimate roughly 7.1 thousand people bear Mitja (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Mitja have the most bearers?
We estimate about 6.6 thousand people bear Mitja in Slovenia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mitja.
Where is Mitja most common?
Mitja is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 316 people carrying it.
How common is Mitja compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Mitja is the 68th most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.
Is Mitja a male or female name?
Mitja 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.
What does the name Mitja mean?
Recorded meaning: männl. Vom. russischer Herkunft,
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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, “Mitja” — the 68th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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