Names of North Macedonia MK

State Statistical Office — living population names records Марија as the commonest given name in North Macedonia and Стојановска as the commonest surname; the names that most distinguish North Macedonia from the rest of the world are Јовановска, Николовска and Рамадани.

Written in Macedonian, Albanian.

Population
2.1M
Official registers
1
Name forms recorded
5.3K
ABuilt from 1 official register, 5,310 name forms in our corpus, 5 cited works.

Official registers for given names and surnames, 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 North Macedonia are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, North Macedonia included.

How names work in North Macedonia

2 naming traditions are in use in North Macedonia, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in North Macedonia

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
State Statistical Office — living population names — 2,468 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Марија20K—
2Елена12K—
3Билјана11K9
4Весна9.8K13
5Снежана9.4K17
6Александра8.8K—
7Сара8.6K20
8Виолета8.4K22
9Ана8.2K—
10Сузана7.8K25
11Ивана7.6K6
12Катерина7.2K—
13Даниела6.7K28
14Маја6.7K32
15Валентина6.7K—
16Славица6.6K35
17Наташа6.4K—
18Гордана6.2K41
19Лилјана5.9K44
20Елизабета5.7K—

Where the two lists disagree

23 of State Statistical Office — living population names's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

State Statistical Office — living population namesAcross all recordsалександар: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. александарnot rankedникола: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. николаnot rankedзоран: 3 → 53. зоран5горан: 4 → 84. горан8стефан: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. стефанnot rankedфилип: 6 → 12 · ranks lower across all records6. филип12петар: 7 → 16 · ranks lower across all records7. петар16дејан: 8 → 21 · ranks lower across all records8. дејан21мартин: 9 → 24 · ranks lower across all records9. мартин24игор: 10 → 23 · ranks lower across all records10. игор23драган: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. драганnot rankedјован: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. јованnot rankedандреј: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. андрејnot rankedдарко: 14 → 30 · ranks lower across all records14. дарко30димитар: 15 → 31 · ranks lower across all records15. димитар31иван: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. иванnot rankedтони: 17 → 39 · ranks lower across all records17. тони39марко: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. маркоnot rankedилија: 19 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country19. илијаnot rankedсашо: 20 → 42 · ranks lower across all records20. сашо42давид: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. давидnot rankedмарјан: 22 → 43 · ranks lower across all records22. марјан43гоце: 23 → 49 · ranks lower across all records23. гоце49бојан: 24 → 46 · ranks lower across all records24. бојан46виктор: 25 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country25. викторnot ranked
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
State Statistical Office — living population names on the left; every record we hold for North Macedonia 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 North Macedonia

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when North Macedonia 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.

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

Scripts & spelling

Names in North Macedonia are written in Cyrillic (99%) and Latin (1%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

Зоранgiven name●Zoran
Иванаgiven name●Eva
Горанgiven name●Goran
Билјанаgiven name●Biljana
Христијанgiven name●Krystian
The best-attested names in North Macedonia, 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

  • State Statistical Office — living population namesheadline

    State Statistical Office (Државен завод за статистика), North Macedonia. Counts: residents. given and surname. 3,566 forms.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 5,040 rows, name_types=['given', 'surname'], evidence=['count']. source note: population_register_living. ENRICHED 2026-07-14: added the per-region breakdown that Iminja_Preziminja.aspx supports via RadioButtonList3="1" (8 statistical regions in one POST, same cost as the national-total query) -- re-queried the ~9,105 names already confirmed present nationally. Verified sum-exact: Ivan/M region sum = 7,819 = national total. Only ~11% of names got a region breakdown (names with region data average 1,786 national bearers vs 175 for those without) -- this is the site's own per-region suppression floor of 5, not a scraping gap: lower-frequency names spread thin enough that every individual region falls below 5. Fetcher: scripts/fetch_mk_region.py (resumable; raw JSON cached under raw/MK/cache_region/, merges directly into this parquet rather than a separate source_id).

    Last verified 2026-07-14.

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 North Macedonia?
Александар, according to State Statistical Office — living population names, with 20,934 bearers recorded among boys.
What is the most common surname in North Macedonia?
Стојановска, according to State Statistical Office — living population names, with 6,861 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in North Macedonia?
Because they count different people. State Statistical Office — living population names counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Александар. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Зоран. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in North Macedonia?
No — 2 are described on this page (Macedonian, Albanian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of North Macedonia”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/MK (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from State Statistical Office — living population names.