Višnja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: cherry (sour fruit)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: SURS, 2025
/ʋîʃɲa/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Višnja is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 799(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 9.5K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 14K
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)
- Record sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 799 (inferred from the name graph)
5,292 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 Visnja in DE Germany.
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)cherry (sour fruit)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Višnja 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 | #212 | 5,292 | 1 in 799 | 5.3K | Višnja | 39 |
| RS Serbia | #452 | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 9.5K | — | Višnja | 32 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #796 | ≈270 est. | ≈1 in 14K | — | Višnja | 6 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈160 est. | ≈1 in 500K | — | Visnja | 39 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 120 | 1 in 18K | 120 | Višnja | 3 |
| ME Montenegro | #772 | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 104K | — | Višnja | 4 |
5,292 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); SURS — resident population given names. 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)Višnja 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 Serbo-Croatian, 1° Weichsel(kirsche), 2° antroponim, 3° toponim
as a wordSkok, Etimologijski rječnik hrvatskoga ili srpskoga jezika (1971-74)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Višnja Stahuljakb. 1926HRCroatian writer (1926–2011)
- Višnja Đorđevićb. 1938RSSerbian ballet dancer (1938-2017)
- Višnja Machiedob. 1940HRCroatian essayist, translator and writer (1940-2013)
- Višnja Bitib. 1953HRCroatian journalist
- Visnja Vjetrovicb. 1987RSSerbian model
- Višnja UroševićRSThe progenitor of the House of Obrenović
- Višnja KolonićSIresearcher
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 5.3K | #202 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 4.7K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 120 | #668 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 117 | #668 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 117 | #633 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 116 | #663 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 116 | #629 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 112 | #625 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 111 | #613 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 111 | #588 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 110 | #602 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 110 | #598 |
Reference works 2
- 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 Višnja mean, and where does it come from?
- cherry (sour fruit) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Višnja?
- A machine transcription gives /ʋîʃɲa/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Višnja a male or female name?
- Višnja is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Slovenia (SURS, 2025).
- In which country does Višnja have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 5.3 thousand people named Višnja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled višnja.
- Where is Višnja most common?
- Višnja is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 799 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Višnja?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 5,292 people named Višnja in 2021, about 1 in 799 residents.
- How common is Višnja compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Višnja is the 212th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Višnja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vi%C5%A1njaThe 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, “Višnja” — the 212th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.