Gorján
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Gorján is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in North Macedonia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Gorj + -an.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 68K(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 210K
- HRCroatia≈1 in 260K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gorján itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- North Macedonia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 24 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 68K (inferred from the name graph)
832 named Горјан
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Gorjan in MK North Macedonia, SI Slovenia, HR Croatia and 2 more.
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(measured from records)
From Gorj + -an.
Sources 2
- Wiktionary
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Gorján 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MK North Macedonia | #412 | 832as Горјан | 1 in 2.6K | 832 | Gorjan | 20 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 68K | — | Gorjan | 7 |
| HR Croatia | — | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 260K | 55 | Gorjan | 21 |
| US United States | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 27M | — | Gorjan | 24 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 10 | 1 in 210K | 276 | Gorjan | 11 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 2 | 1 in 5.4M | 2 | — | — |
832 people counted by State Statistical Office — living population names, counting the spelling горјан. 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: State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Gorján mean, and where does it come from?
- From Gorj + -an. Recorded by Wiktionary and Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- Is Gorján a male or female name?
- Gorján 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.
- In which country does Gorján have the most bearers?
- In North Macedonia, the national register counted about 832 people named Горјан, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Gorján?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 10 people named Gorján in 2025, about 1 in 210 thousand residents.
- How common is Gorján compared with other names?
- In North Macedonia, Gorján is the 412th most common given name of 2,588 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/gorj%C3%A1nThe 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, “Gorján” — the 412th most common given name in North Macedonia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.