Kljajić
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/kʎǎːit͡ɕ/(recorded in a dictionary) Croatian · from Wiktionary
Kljajić is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Kljajo + -ić.
- HRCroatia1 in 2.3K(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 3.7Kfew records
- RSSerbia≈1 in 4.6Kfew 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
- 44 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,840 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
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Kljajic in CH Switzerland.
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 Kljajo + -ić.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Kljajić 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 | #289 | 1,840 | 1 in 2.3K | 1.8K | Kljajić | 44 |
| RS Serbia | #374 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Kljajić | 25 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #260 | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Kljajić | 9 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 251 | 1 in 8.4K | 251 | Kljajić | 4 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 161 | 1 in 52K | 161 | Kljajic | 2 |
| ME Montenegro | #327 | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 7.2K | — | Kljajić | 9 |
1,840 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); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Filip Kljajićb. 1913HRYugoslav Partisan (1913–1943)
- Goran Kljajićb. 1955BAwriter
- Željko Kljajićb. 1957SISlovene policeman
- Filip Kljajićb. 1990RSSerbian association football player (1990-)
- Jovan Kljajićb. 2001MEMontenegrin basketball player (born 2001)
- Alen KljajićSIresearcher
- Miroljub KljajićSIresearcher
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)10 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.8K | #222 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.5K | — |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 251 | #1,652 |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Kljajić mean, and where does it come from?
- From Kljajo + -ić. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- How do you pronounce Kljajić?
- In Croatian /kʎǎːit͡ɕ/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Kljajić have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Kljajić, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kljajić.
- Where is Kljajić most common?
- Kljajić is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kljajić?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,840 people named Kljajić in 2021, about 1 in 2.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Kljajić compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Kljajić is the 289th most common surname of 72,581 surnames 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/kljaji%C4%87The 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, “Kljajić” — the 289th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.