Nejc

given name · Hungarian · Latin script

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

Nejc is a given name, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Slovenian, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 264◐
  • CHSwitzerland1 in 522K
  • HRCroatia1 in 707K

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

≈8.0K ●

across 6 countries

Sources
85 ●

1.3K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 264 ◐

Slovenia

Meaning & origin

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

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Nejc is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#417,956△1.1K rec.1 in 2648KNejc85
US United States—11758 rec.——Nejc27
DE Germany—9486 rec.—listedNejc25
HR Croatia—425 rec.——Nejc9
GB United Kingdom—3111 rec.——Nejc11
AT Austria—1812 rec.——Nejc12
NL Netherlands—1611 rec.——Nejc8
CH Switzerland—1511 rec.——Nejc7
AU Australia—108 rec.——Nejc8
FI Finland—90 rec.—15Nejc1
PL Poland—8—1 in 4.8M8——
BE Belgium—76 rec.——Nejc5

Roughly 8K people in Slovenia bear this name (about 1 in 264). 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●

  • Hungarian16K85%
  • Slovenian1.4K7%
  • English4292%
  • German1621%
  • Croatian901%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hungarian15,97185%
Slovenian1,3687%
English4292%
German1621%
Croatian901%

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◐

Nejc is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name95 records spelled Nejc2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia

    Also written Nejč

  • Czech given name59 records spelled Nejc3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Slovakia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Nejč

  • Russian surname36 records spelled Nejc6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Slovenia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Нейц, Неиц

30 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●

0100200300400200020102020312 · 2003

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Nejc in SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register), Slovenia, 1992–2024
Yearrecords
1992234
1993284
1994240
1995225
1996220
1997239
1998222
1999212
2000201
2001228
2002286
2003312
2004281
2005240
2006236
2007250
2008273
2009229
2010233
2011196
2012226
2013150
2014173
2015146
2016138
2017118
2018116
2019108
202068
202169
202274
202349
202455

SI SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) — 33 years between 1992–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Jernej Zaplotnik, b. 1952Nejc Brodar, b. 1982Nejc Gazvoda, b. 1985Nejc Pečnik, b. 1986Nejc Potokar, b. 1988Nejc Skubic, b. 1989Nejc Mevlja, b. 1990Nejc Dežman, b. 1992Nejc Plesec, b. 1994Nejc Krevs, b. 1995

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 15 sources across 9 countries.

Official registers attesting Nejc
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—8K#46
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20258K#29
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20247.9K#29
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20237.9K#29
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20227.8K#30
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20217.8K#31
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20207.7K#32
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20197.6K#32
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20187.5K#32
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20177.4K#33
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20167.3K#34
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20157.1K#34

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 · 63 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nejc?
We estimate roughly 8.0 thousand people bear Nejc (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Nejc have the most bearers?
We estimate about 8.0 thousand people bear Nejc in Slovenia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled nejc.
Where is Nejc most common?
Nejc is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 264 people carrying it.
How common is Nejc compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Nejc is the 41st most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.
Is Nejc a male or female name?
Nejc 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 . 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, “Nejc” — the 41st most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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