Names of Lithuania LT

Registrų centras — top-50 given names records Ona as the commonest given name in Lithuania; the names that most distinguish Lithuania from the rest of the world are Mindaugas, Mantas and Darius.

Written in Lithuanian.

Population
2.7M
Official registers
2
Name forms recorded
28K
BBuilt from 2 official registers, 28,307 name forms in our corpus, 2 cited works.

At least one official register, plus a written account of the naming system.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Lithuania are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Lithuania included.

How names work in Lithuania

Names in Lithuania follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

The most common names in Lithuania

Counts children born in the year · authority tier 1
Registrų centras — top-50 given names — 50 given names counted over children born that year, girls only, as the register publishes them.
#NameBearers recordedOur rank
1Ona102K138
2Marija67K—
3Elena64K—
4Janina54K129
5Irena42K—
6Jadvyga37K—
7Emilija33K103
8Marijona33K—
9Aldona32K130
10Stanislava31K—
11Regina31K—
12Kristina30K—
13Veronika30K—
14Stasė29K—
15Danutė29K—
16Olga27K114
17Viktorija26K—
18Lina25K9
19Birutė24K133
20Ana24K135

Where the two lists disagree

25 of Registrų centras — top-50 given names's top 25 given names sit five or more places away in our record corpus. Neither ranking is wrong; they count different people.

Registrų centras — top-50 given namesAcross all recordsona: 1 → 138 · ranks lower across all records1. ona138marija: 2 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country2. marijanot rankedelena: 3 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country3. elenanot rankedjanina: 4 → 129 · ranks lower across all records4. janina129irena: 5 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country5. irenanot rankedjadvyga: 6 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country6. jadvyganot rankedemilija: 7 → 103 · ranks lower across all records7. emilija103marijona: 8 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country8. marijonanot rankedaldona: 9 → 130 · ranks lower across all records9. aldona130stanislava: 10 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country10. stanislavanot rankedregina: 11 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country11. reginanot rankedkristina: 12 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country12. kristinanot rankedveronika: 13 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country13. veronikanot rankedstasė: 14 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country14. stasėnot rankeddanutė: 15 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country15. danutėnot rankedolga: 16 → 114 · ranks lower across all records16. olga114viktorija: 17 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country17. viktorijanot rankedlina: 18 → 9 · ranks higher across all records18. lina9birutė: 19 → 133 · ranks lower across all records19. birutė133ana: 20 → 135 · ranks lower across all records20. ana135genovaitė: 21 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country21. genovaitėnot rankedvalentina: 22 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country22. valentinanot rankedzofija: 23 → not ranked · not in our corpus’s top ranks for this country23. zofijanot rankedrasa: 24 → 12 · ranks higher across all records24. rasa12daiva: 25 → 20 · ranks higher across all records25. daiva20
Hover a line for what is available to explain that row.
Registrų centras — top-50 given names on the left; every record we hold for Lithuania on the right. A dashed line means the name is not in our top ranks for this country at all.

The register counts one population in one year — everyone it enumerates, once. Our corpus counts records: historical registers going back decades, the diaspora, business and place records, and several generations of births. A name that was common two generations ago outranks a name common today; a name whose spelling scatters across sources (diacritics dropped, transliterated differently) loses ground, because only its dominant spelling is ranked.

Characteristic of Lithuania

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Lithuania holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

MindaugasMantasDariusMariusLinaJonasLukasArturasIevaRasaLauraDaivaJurgitaKarolisDonatasGediminasMonikaAstaGintarėNerijus
Sized by how much of the difference between Lithuania's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.(measured from records)

Scripts & spelling

Mindaugasgiven name(measured from records)
Mantasgiven name(measured from records)
Dariusgiven name(measured from records)
Mariusgiven name(measured from records)
Linagiven name(measured from records)
The best-attested names in Lithuania, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Official registers

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.

Questions

What is the most common given name in Lithuania?
Ona, according to Registrų centras — top-50 given names, with 102,357 bearers recorded among girls.
Why do sources disagree about the commonest name in Lithuania?
Because they count different people. Registrų centras — top-50 given names counts one population once, and its commonest given name is Ona. Our corpus counts every record we hold — historical registers, the diaspora, decades of births — and its commonest is Mindaugas. Both are on this page, each with its denominator.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Lithuania”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/LT (data snapshot 2026-10-09). Official figures from Registrų centras — top-50 given names.