Names of Slovenia SI

stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) records Novak as the commonest surname in Slovenia; the names that most distinguish Slovenia from the rest of the world are Franc, Ana and Janez.

Written in Slovenian, Italian, Hungarian.

Population
2.1M
Official registers
3
Name forms recorded
12K
ABuilt from 3 official registers (2025), 11,899 name forms in our corpus, 16 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 Slovenia are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Slovenia included.

How names work in Slovenia

6 naming traditions are in use in Slovenia, 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 Slovenia

Counts everyone resident in the country · authority tier 1
SURS — resident population given names, 2025 — 4,379 given names counted over residents, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Marija43K—
2Ana22K2
3Maja14K12
4Irena12K16
5Mojca11K—
6Nina11K27
7Mateja10K24
8Nataša10K—
9Eva9.5K33
10Andreja9.2K30
11Sara9.1K40
12Barbara9.1K37
13Petra9.1K31
14Anja8.7K—
15Jožica8.6K—
16Katja8.6K—
17Nika8.1K—
18Tina7.8K—
19Tanja7.8K58
20Tatjana7.7K54

Where the two lists disagree

24 of SURS — resident population 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.

SURS — resident population given names 2025Across all recordsmarija: 1 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country1. marijanot rankedana: 2 → 22. ana2maja: 3 → 12 · ranks lower across all records3. maja12irena: 4 → 16 · ranks lower across all records4. irena16mojca: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. mojcanot rankednina: 6 → 27 · ranks lower across all records6. nina27mateja: 7 → 24 · ranks lower across all records7. mateja24nataša: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. natašanot rankedeva: 9 → 33 · ranks lower across all records9. eva33andreja: 10 → 30 · ranks lower across all records10. andreja30sara: 11 → 40 · ranks lower across all records11. sara40barbara: 12 → 37 · ranks lower across all records12. barbara37petra: 13 → 31 · ranks lower across all records13. petra31anja: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. anjanot rankedjožica: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. jožicanot rankedkatja: 16 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country16. katjanot rankednika: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. nikanot rankedtina: 18 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country18. tinanot rankedtanja: 19 → 58 · ranks lower across all records19. tanja58tatjana: 20 → 54 · ranks lower across all records20. tatjana54vesna: 21 → 49 · ranks lower across all records21. vesna49katarina: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. katarinanot rankedsonja: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. sonjanot rankedAlenKa: 24 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country24. AlenKanot rankedmilena: 25 → 60 · ranks lower across all records25. milena60
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
SURS — resident population given names, 2025 on the left; every record we hold for Slovenia 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 Slovenia

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

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

Over time

EvaSaraNikaAnaLara19922024379
SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register), 1992–2024 (33 years). The line is that register's own figure for each year — not a total across registers, which would count the same people twice. The publisher labels this series “flow”.

Up to five names at a time.

Scripts & spelling

Anagiven name●
Francgiven name●
Janezgiven name●
Ivangiven name●
Antongiven name●
The best-attested names in Slovenia, 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

  • SURS — resident population given names2025headline (given)

    Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS / SiStat). Counts: residents. given. 4,379 forms. 2008–2025.

    What we know about this register

    Auto-backfilled registry stub (2026-06-05); verify publisher/URL. 136,921 rows, name_types=['given'], evidence=['count']. source note: resident_population_si_stat

    Last verified 2026-06-05.

  • stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)headline (surnames)

    Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS). Counts: not recorded. given and surname. 12,599 forms. Licence: Open data Slovenia.

    What we know about this register

    Population-register name search behind stat.si/imenarojstva. DISTINCT from si-surs-names PxWeb bulk: gives the FULL name universe (every given name + surname with population count >= 5), each with a national rank, plus a regional breakdown string for surnames. Enumerated via prefix-autocomplete walk (GetNames/GetLastnames cap at top-6 per prefix; BFS over a-z + cszz Slovene letters, deepening capped prefixes). Counts via GetNameTimeData (gender Z/M must match GetNames) and GetLastnameData. Counts < 5 suppressed by source. Server TLS-fingerprints clients: fetched via curl (urllib reset). Re-runnable resumable scraper: scripts/fetch_si_stat.py; raw JSONL cached under raw/SI/.

    Last verified 2026-06-03.

  • SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register)2024

    Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia (SURS). Counts: not recorded. given. 283 forms. 1992–2024. Licence: Open data Slovenia.

    What we know about this register

    PxWeb SiStatData tables 05X1005S/05X1010S (first names by sex, population register), 05X1015-18S (family names A-Ž), 05X2001/2S (baby names). Annually updated.

    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 Slovenia?
Marija, according to SURS — resident population given names (2025), with 43,035 bearers recorded among girls.
What is the most common surname in Slovenia?
Novak, according to stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank), with 10,510 bearers recorded.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Slovenia?
Because they count different people. SURS — resident population given names (2025) counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Marija. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Ana. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.
Is there one naming system in Slovenia?
No — 6 are described on this page (Slovenian, Italian, Maltese, Romansh, Sardinian and Corsican, Hungarian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Slovenia”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/SI (data snapshot 2026-09-12). Official figures from SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank).