Mladen

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Младен in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia, TR Türkiye and 1 more.

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●

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

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

• Polish given name544 records spelled Mladen3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, Serbia, United States, United Kingdom

  Also written Mładen, Mlädén

37 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●

Mladen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Russian, "young."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In English, A male given name from the Slavic languages.

  as a word·kaikki.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●

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●

• Mladen Lorkovićb. 1909HRCroatian politician, lawyer and Ustasha leader (1909-1945)
• Karl Maldenb. 1912USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1912–2009)
• Mladen Markačb. 1955HRCroatian army officer
• Mladen Ivanićb. 1958BABosnian Serb politician (born 1958)
• Mladen Milicevicb. 1958BAcomposer
• Mladen Mladenovićb. 1964HRCroatian association football player
• Mladen Rudonjab. 1971SISlovenian footballer
• Mladen Krstajićb. 1974RSSerbian football manager and former footballer
• Mladen Solomunb. 1975BABosnian-German DJ and music producer
• Mladen Petrićb. 1981HRCroatian association football player (born 1981)

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●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 270 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mladen?

We estimate roughly 23 thousand people bear Mladen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Mladen have the most bearers?

We estimate about 19 thousand people bear Mladen in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mladen.

Where is Mladen most common?

Mladen is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 222 people carrying it.

How common is Mladen compared with other names?

In Croatia, Mladen is the 46th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Mladen a male or female name?

Mladen 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.