Forján
surname · Latin script
Forján is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: forger, façonner.
- HRCroatia1 in 10K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 7.8K
- ESSpain1 in 121K
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)
- Sources
- 34 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.8K (inferred from the name graph)
420 people, 2021
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Forjan in HR Croatia, AR Argentina, ES Spain and 4 more.
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)
forger, façonner
Sources 1
- Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Forján 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 420 | 1 in 10K | 420 | Forjan | 34 |
| ES Spain | 415 | 1 in 121K | 415 | Forjan | 33 |
| SI Slovenia | 271 | 1 in 7.8K | 271 | Forjan | 8 |
| US United States | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 3.4M | listed | Forjan | 32 |
| AR Argentina | 93 | 1 in 489K | 93 | Forjan | 22 |
| HU Hungary | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 338K | — | Forjan | 14 |
| UY Uruguay | 27 | 1 in 125K | 27 | Forjan | 5 |
420 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); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)
- Enrique Líster Forjánb. 1907ESSpanish general (1907-1994)
- Alojz Forjanb. 1951SISlovene field hockey player (1951-)
- Matej Forjanb. 1976SIresearcher
- Slavko Forjanb. 1977SISlovene field hockey player (1977-)
- Aleš Forjanb. 1980SIbadminton player
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Forján mean, and where does it come from?
- forger, façonner Recorded by Deshayes, Dictionnaire étymologique du breton (2003).
- In which country does Forján have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 420 people named Forján, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled forjan.
- Where is Forján most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Forján is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 7.8 thousand people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Forján?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 420 people named Forján in 2021, about 1 in 10 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/forj%C3%A1nThe 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, “Forján”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.