Dolenc
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Dolenc is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 50th most common surname.
- SISlovenia1 in 1.3K(measured from records)
- HRCroatia1 in 34K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 600K
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.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 61 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.3K (inferred from the name graph)
1,640 people
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dolenc 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | #50 | 1,640 | 1 in 1.3K | 1.6K | Dolenc | 51 |
| HR Croatia | — | 124 | 1 in 34K | 124 | Dolenc | 30 |
| US United States | — | 114 | 1 in 2.9M | 114 | Dolenc | 61 |
| BR Brazil | — | 74 | 1 in 2.9M | 74 | — | — |
| FR France | — | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.5M | 8 | — | — |
| CA Canada | — | ≈41 est. | ≈1 in 914K | — | Dolenc | 5 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 14 | 1 in 600K | 14 | Dolenc | 11 |
1,640 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000). 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)
- Milan Dolencb. 1907SISlovene veterinarian
- Marija Suhodolčan Dolencb. 1929SISlovenian librarian
- Vinko Dolencb. 1940SISlovene neurosurgeon
- Mate Dolencb. 1945SISlovene writer and translator
- Božidar Dolencb. 1950SISlovenian photographer
- Jana Dolencb. 1964SISlovene painter and illustrator
- Marko Dolencb. 1972SISlovene biathlete
- Cindy Dolencb. 1976CACanadian actress
- Leja Dolenc-GrošeljSIresearcher
- Franc DolencSIresearcher
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 1.6K | #57 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 124 | #6,589 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 114 | #145,220 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 112 | #147,954 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 107 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 74 | #79,169 |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 14 | #47,506 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1951 | 13 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1971 | 10 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1941 | 8 | — |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1961 | 7 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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
- In which country does Dolenc have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 1.6 thousand people named Dolenc, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dolenc.
- Where is Dolenc most common?
- Dolenc is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.3 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dolenc?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 1,640 people named Dolenc, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Dolenc compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Dolenc is the 50th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dolenc?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dolencThe 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, “Dolenc” — the 50th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.