Kraljević
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Kraljević is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: prince.
- HRCroatia1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 5.4K
- MEMontenegro≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
2,005 people, 2021
recorded for this name
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 Kraljevic in DE Germany, 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)
prince
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Kraljević 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 | #206 | 2,005 | 1 in 2.1K | 2K | Kraljević | 56 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #195 | ≈710 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Kraljević | 21 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Kraljević | 16 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈180 est. | ≈1 in 455K | — | Kraljevic | 46 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 98 | 1 in 86K | 98 | Kraljevic | 8 |
| ME Montenegro | #475 | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Kraljević | 7 |
2,005 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); 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)
- Anđeo Kraljevićb. 1807Roman Catholic bishop
- Luka Kraljevićb. 1997SISlovenian basketball player (born 1997)
- Marko KraljevićCHresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
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 Kraljević mean, and where does it come from?
- prince Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Kraljević have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Kraljević, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled kraljević.
- Where is Kraljević most common?
- Kraljević is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.1 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Kraljević?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 2,005 people named Kraljević in 2021, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Kraljević compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Kraljević is the 206th most common surname of 72,581 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/kraljevi%C4%87The same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Kraljević” — the 206th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.