Mladen

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mla˦˨d̪en/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mladen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 43rd most common given name.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 222(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 421
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 698

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)

19,043 people, 2021

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
149 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 222 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MladenLatin(measured from records)
МладенCyrillic(measured from records)
ΜλαντενGreek(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(measured from records)

recorded in Romanian

, vecin (17 B IV 45); boier (P Gov f0 11) < srb.-blg. miadrt tInar". *MLEC + suf. -an : Mlecanesti s. (17 B II 432) ; Mleicd, b. (RI I 22), cf. subst. mlece si vb. a mleci a dumica".

Sources 2

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mladen 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.

Where Mladen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#4319,0431 in 22219KMladen125
RS Serbia#65≈17,000 est.≈1 in 421listedMladen73
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#14≈5,500 est.≈1 in 698—Mladen48
BG Bulgaria#154≈3,500 est.≈1 in 2K—Mladen89
DE Germany—≈1,500 est.≈1 in 53KlistedMladen108
SI Slovenia#2061,4401 in 1.5K1.4KMladen38

19,043 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); the de-munich-vornamen register; 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mladen is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, Poland, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Mlädén, Mładen

37 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mladen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, "young."

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In English, A male given name from the Slavic languages.

    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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019201940196019802000Mladen Lorković, b. 1909Karl Malden, b. 1912Mladen Markač, b. 1955Mladen Ivanić, b. 1958Mladen Milicevic, b. 1958Mladen Mladenović, b. 1964Mladen Rudonja, b. 1971Mladen Krstajić, b. 1974Mladen Solomun, b. 1975Mladen Petrić, b. 1981

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)

InformalBok Mladen,Hi Mladen, (English)

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 41 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Mladen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202119K#38
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202116K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20211.4K#139
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20241.4K#140
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20251.4K#142
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.4K#309
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20221.4K#140
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20201.4K#140
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20231.4K#143
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20191.4K#145
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20181.3K#149
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20101.3K#147

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • 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

How do you pronounce Mladen?
A machine transcription gives /mla˦˨d̪en/ (IPA) for Croatian.
Is Mladen a male or female name?
Mladen 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.
In which country does Mladen have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Mladen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mladen.
Where is Mladen most common?
Mladen is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 222 people carrying it.
How common is the name Mladen?
In Croatia, the national register counted 19,043 people named Mladen in 2021, about 1 in 222 residents.
How common is Mladen compared with other names?
In Croatia, Mladen is the 43rd most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.

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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, “Mladen” — the 43rd most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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