Motiejus
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Motejus). Iš krikšto vardo Motiėjus
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Motiejus is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Lithuania than in any other country.
- LTLithuania≈1 in 6.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- ISIceland1 in 70K
- DKDenmark1 in 734K
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.
- Lithuania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 42 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.1K (inferred from the name graph)
≈440 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Lithuania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Motejus). Iš krikšto vardo Motiėjus.
Sources 1
- Vanagas, Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Dictionary of Lithuanian Surnames)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Motiejus 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LT Lithuania | #581 | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | listed | Motiejus | 42 |
| US United States | — | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 44M | — | Motiejus | 13 |
| DK Denmark | — | 8 | 1 in 734K | 8 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 7 | 1 in 1.5M | 7 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 11M | listed | Motiejus | 13 |
| IS Iceland | — | 5 | 1 in 70K | 5 | — | — |
| AU Australia | — | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 7.2M | — | Motiejus | 2 |
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: the lt-vlkk-vardai register; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Motiejus Valančiusb. 1801LTLithuanian bishop (1801–1875)
- Motiejus Brundzab. 1824LTLithuanian writer (1824-1869)
- Motiejus Juodišiusb. 1854LTLithuanian translator
- Motiejus Gustaitisb. 1870LTLithuanian poet (1870-1927)
- Motiejus Miškinisb. 1898LTRussian writer and literary critic (1898-1974)
- Motiejus Budriūnasb. 1898LTLithuanian conductor
- Motiejus Šumauskasb. 1905LTLithuanian collaborator (1905-1982)
- Motiejus Narbutasb. 1934LTLithuanian sculptor
- Motiejus Burbab. 2003LTLithuanian association football player
- Motiejus Krivasb. 2004LTLithuanian basketball player (born 2004)
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 8 | #7,502 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 7 | #40,644 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 5 | — |
| LT Lithuania | VLKK — Lietuvos Respublikos piliečių vardų sąvadas (recommended names) | — | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai | 2025 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2022 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai | 2024 | — | — |
| LT Lithuania | Registrų centras — Populiariausi naujagimių vardai | 2023 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2019 | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Motiejus mean?
- Recorded meaning: Motejus). Iš krikšto vardo Motiėjus.
- Is Motiejus a male or female name?
- Motiejus 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.
- What are other forms of the name Motiejus?
- In the etymology graph, Matthew, Matt and Matias are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Motiejus have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 444 people named Motiejus in Lithuania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled motiejus.
- How common is the name Motiejus?
- In Denmark, the national register counted 8 people named Motiejus, about 1 in 734 thousand residents.
- How common is Motiejus compared with other names?
- In Lithuania, Motiejus is the 581st most common given name of 5,944 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Motiejus?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/motiejusThe 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, “Motiejus” — the 581st most common given name in Lithuania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.