Names of Lithuania LT

Registrų centras — top-50 given names records Ona as the commonest given name in Lithuania; the names that most distinguish Lithuania from the rest of the world are Jonas, Juozas and Janina.

Written in Lithuanian.

Population
2.7M
Official registers
3
Name forms recorded
24K
BBuilt from 3 official registers, 24,220 name forms in our corpus, 2 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Lithuania are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Lithuania included.

How names work in Lithuania

Names in Lithuania follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Lithuania

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
Registrų centras — top-50 given names — 50 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Ona102K2
2Marija67K—
3Elena64K—
4Janina54K6
5Irena42K—
6Jadvyga37K—
7Emilija33K17
8Marijona33K—
9Aldona32K19
10Stanislava31K22
11Regina31K—
12Kristina30K—
13Veronika30K—
14Stasė29K—
15Danutė29K—
16Olga27K30
17Viktorija26K29
18Lina25K28
19Birutė24K—
20Ana24K—

Where the two lists disagree

23 of Registrų centras — top-50 given names's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Registrų centras — top-50 given namesAcross all recordsona: 1 → 21. ona2marija: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. marijanot rankedelena: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. elenanot rankedjanina: 4 → 64. janina6irena: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. irenanot rankedjadvyga: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. jadvyganot rankedemilija: 7 → 17 · ranks lower across all records7. emilija17marijona: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. marijonanot rankedaldona: 9 → 19 · ranks lower across all records9. aldona19stanislava: 10 → 22 · ranks lower across all records10. stanislava22regina: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. reginanot rankedkristina: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. kristinanot rankedveronika: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. veronikanot rankedstasė: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. stasėnot rankeddanutė: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. danutėnot rankedolga: 16 → 30 · ranks lower across all records16. olga30viktorija: 17 → 29 · ranks lower across all records17. viktorija29lina: 18 → 28 · ranks lower across all records18. lina28birutė: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. birutėnot rankedana: 20 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country20. ananot rankedgenovaitė: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. genovaitėnot rankedvalentina: 22 → 43 · ranks lower across all records22. valentina43zofija: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. zofijanot rankedrasa: 24 → 36 · ranks lower across all records24. rasa36daiva: 25 → 38 · ranks lower across all records25. daiva38
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Registrų centras — top-50 given names on the left; every record we hold for Lithuania on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Lithuania

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Lithuania holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

JonasJuozasOnaJaninaPetrasIevaStasysIvanStanislavaAldonaStaseAleksandrKazysVladimirGenovaiteMindaugasAlgirdasBronislavaLinaOlgaAliaksandrValentinaBiruteAntaninaPovilasDaivaDariusAleksandraStefanijaLukasMantasViktorasRasaArturasDanuteMariusMonikaJelenaTatjanaAlgimantasAneleJurgitaSvetlanaZitaRitaAlbinasVirginijaPavelKestutisEmilijaAndreiGediminasNijoleEgidijusArunasViktorijaValerijaAdeleGalinaLiudmila
Sized by how much of the difference between Lithuania's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Jonasgiven name●
Onagiven name●
Juozasgiven name●
Janinagiven name●
Petrasgiven name●
The best-attested names in Lithuania, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

  • Registrų centras — top-50 given namesheadline (given)

    State Enterprise Centre of Registers (Registrų centras), Lithuania. Counts: residents. given. 50 forms.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 100 rows, name_types=['given'], evidence=['count']. source note: registrucentras_top50_since_1900

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

  • VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names)

    Valstybinė lietuvių kalbos komisija (VLKK). Counts: residents. given. 16 forms. Licence: unknown.

    What we know about this register

    Official recommended-given-names register of the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. 8,547 distinct given names harvested from the A-Z /sarasas/ pages (Cloudflare-gated → Firecrawl JS render, ~27 credits). Existence; 16 head names carry population counts from the Populiariausi page (Jonas, Ona, ...). The underlying person DB is ~3.9M but per-name counts are behind individual lookup pages (not harvested). scripts/lt_scrape.py.

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

  • Registrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai2025

    VĮ Registrų centras (State Enterprise Centre of Registers). Counts: not recorded. given. 50 forms. 2025. Licence: CC BY 4.0.

    What we know about this register

    Top-20 newborn names quarterly (girls/boys), plus top-50 cumulative names since 1900 (women/men). Pipe-delimited CSV. Columns: nr (rank), vardas (name), viso_vardas (count), gimimo_metai (birth year), gimimo_ketvirtis (quarter).

    Last verified 2026-05-09.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Lithuania?
Ona, according to Registrų centras — top-50 given names, with 102,357 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Lithuania?
Because they count different people. Registrų centras — top-50 given names counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Ona. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Jonas. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Lithuania”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/LT (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from Registrų centras — top-50 given names.