Šajn
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Šajn is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country: 272 people, counted by DZS in 2021. Šajn is also written Шајн in Cyrillic.
- HRCroatia1 in 16K(measured from records)
- DKDenmark1 in 56K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 99Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 18 (measured from records)
- 1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)
272 people, 2021
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Šajn in other scripts: Cyrillic
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where the surname Šajn is found
(measured from records)Šajn counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 272 | 1 in 16K | 272 | Šajn | 18 |
| SI Slovenia | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Šajn | 9 |
| DK Denmark | 105 | 1 in 56K | 105 | — | — |
| RS Serbia | ≈67 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Šajn | 11 |
| CH Switzerland | 28 | 1 in 300K | 28 | — | 2 |
272 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Šajn is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Czech, shine, light
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jože Šajnb. 1936SISlovenian painter
- Marko Šajnb. 1983SIresearcher
- Adela Šajnb. 1990SISlovene gymnast
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)6 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Šajn?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 272 people named Šajn, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled šajn. After it come Slovenia, Denmark, Serbia and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Šajn most common?
- Šajn is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 16 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Šajn?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 272 people named Šajn in 2021, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Šajn?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C5%A1ajnThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Šajn” — ranked 3009th in Croatia (DZS, 2021). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.