Ljiljana
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ʎi˨˦ʎa˨˦na/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ljiljana is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 30th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 202(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 283
- DEGermany≈1 in 56K
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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 127 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 202 (inferred from the name graph)
≈35,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ljiljana 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #30 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 202 | — | Ljiljana | 65 |
| HR Croatia | #79 | 14,929 | 1 in 283 | 15K | Ljiljana | 91 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #93 | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 614 | — | Ljiljana | 28 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 56K | 1 | Ljiljana | 82 |
| AT Austria | #872 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | 26 | Ljiljana | 39 |
| SI Slovenia | #726 | 847 | 1 in 2.5K | 847 | Ljiljana | 17 |
| ME Montenegro | #42 | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 2K | #6 | Ljiljana | 26 |
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); the de-duesseldorf-vornamen register; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); SURS — resident population given names; the me-monstat-census register. 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)
- Ljiljana Krstićb. 1919RSSerbian actress
- Ljiljana Molnar Talajićb. 1938BABosnian Herzegovinan and Croatian operatic soprano (1938–2007)
- Ljiljana Petrovićb. 1939RSSerbian singer
- Ljiljana Bakićb. 1939RSSerbian architect, author, essayist
- Ljiljana Buttlerb. 1944RSRomani musician (1944-2010)
- Ljiljana Blagojevicb. 1955RSSerbian actress
- Ljiljana Smajlovićb. 1956RSSerbian journalist
- Ljiljana Petrovićb. 1963RScostume designer
- Ljiljana Nikolovskab. 1964HRCroatian pop singer
- Ljiljana Radonićb. 1981ATCroatian writer, historian
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)
Attested in 35 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 15K | #65 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 13K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 851 | #220 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2023 | 849 | #224 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2022 | 849 | #221 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 847 | #225 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 846 | #222 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2024 | 841 | #224 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 840 | #441 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 832 | #222 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 832 | #218 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 829 | #216 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 are other forms of the name Ljiljana?
- In the etymology graph, Liliana, Lillian and Lilia are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Ljiljana?
- A machine transcription gives /ʎi˨˦ʎa˨˦na/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Ljiljana a male or female name?
- Ljiljana is a female 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.
- In which country does Ljiljana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 35 thousand people named Ljiljana in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ljiljana.
- How common is the name Ljiljana?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 14,929 people named Ljiljana in 2021, about 1 in 283 residents.
- How common is Ljiljana compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Ljiljana is the 30th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Ljiljana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ljiljanaThe 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, “Ljiljana” — the 30th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.