Nenad

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Nenad är ett sydslaviskt namn som betyder ’överraskande (oväntad)’

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

/ne˦˨naːd̪/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Nenad is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 116(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 409
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 1.2K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Nenad itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈60,000 people, est.

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
160 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 116 (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NenadLatin(measured from records)
НенадCyrillic(measured from records)
นินาดThai(measured from records)

Locally spelled Ненад in MK North Macedonia.

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 Swedish

Nenad är ett sydslaviskt namn som betyder ’överraskande (oväntad)’. Namnet har varit populärt i bl.a. Kroatien.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nenad 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 Nenad is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#16≈60,000 est.≈1 in 116listedNenad110
HR Croatia#10410,3441 in 40910KNenad126
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#32≈3,100 est.≈1 in 1.2K—Nenad33
MK North Macedonia#922,650as Ненад1 in 8022.6KНенад34
DE Germany—≈2,500 est.≈1 in 32K1Nenad124
SI Slovenia#5391,2751 in 1.6K1.3KNenad31

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; State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Nenad is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Serbia, United States, Italy

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Nenád

  • Russian given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Ненад

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)

Nenad 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, "no need."

    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)

1960197019801990Nenad Maslovar, b. 1967Knez, b. 1967Nenad Marković, b. 1968Nenad Bjelica, b. 1971Nenad Zimonjić, b. 1976Nenad Đorđević, b. 1979Nenad Milijaš, b. 1983Nenad Krstić, b. 1983Nenad Tomović, b. 1987Nenad Krstičić, b. 1990

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 Nenad,Hi Nenad, (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 46 sources across 27 countries.

Official registers attesting Nenad
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202110K#100
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20219K—
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.3K#338
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20251.3K#158
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20211.3K#157
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20241.3K#158
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20231.3K#159
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20201.2K#157
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20221.2K#161
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20191.1K#162
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20181.1K#163
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20171K#167

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 Nenad?
A machine transcription gives /ne˦˨naːd̪/ (IPA) for Croatian.
What does the name Nenad mean?
Recorded meaning: Nenad är ett sydslaviskt namn som betyder ’överraskande (oväntad)’.
Is Nenad a male or female name?
Nenad 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 Nenad?
In the etymology graph, Neno is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Nenad have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 60 thousand people named Nenad in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nenad.
How common is the name Nenad?
In Croatia, the national register counted 10,344 people named Nenad in 2021, about 1 in 409 residents.
How common is Nenad compared with other names?
In Serbia, Nenad is the 16th most common given name of 10,960 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, “Nenad” — the 16th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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