Néven
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Néven is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country: 4,314 people, counted by DZS in 2021. Recorded meaning: Main GB Location (1881): Lanarks; Perths;.
- HRCroatia1 in 980(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 19K
- ISIceland1 in 88K
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)
- Record sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- 1 in 980 (inferred from the name graph)
4,314 people, 2021
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 Neven in US United States.
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)Main GB Location (1881): Lanarks; Perths;.
Cited for this meaning 2
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nordic Names
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Néven 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.
4,314 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)Néven 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 Hungarian, superessive singular of név
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.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Néven mean, and where does it come from?
- Main GB Location (1881): Lanarks; Perths;. Recorded by The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and Nordic Names.
- Is Néven a male or female name?
- Néven 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Néven?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Néven, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Slovenia, Sweden and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Néven most common?
- Néven is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 980 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Néven?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 4,314 people named Néven in 2021, about 1 in 980 residents.
What do you want to know about Néven?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/n%C3%A9venThe 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, “Néven” — ranked 228th in Croatia (DZS, 2021). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.