Maj-Lis

given name · Latin script

A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex

(measured from records)Officially recorded in 5 countries · latest register: SCB, 2020

/majliːs/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated

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Maj-Lis is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country: 3,193 people, counted by Skatteverket. Recorded meaning: From Maj + Lis; short form of Maria Elisabeth, comparable to English Mary Beth.

  • SESweden1 in 3.2K(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 8.1K
  • DKDenmark1 in 309K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

3,193 people

Record sources
26 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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How to pronounce Maj-Lis

  • Swedish:/majliːs/(machine-generated) model-generated
  • Finnish:/mɑjlis/(machine-generated) model-generated

Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.

Meaning & origin

(measured from records)

From Maj + Lis; short form of Maria Elisabeth, comparable to English Mary Beth.

Cited for this meaning 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Maj-Lis 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 Maj-Lis is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden3,1931 in 3.2K3.2KMaj-Lis26
FI Finland6841 in 8.1K2.1KMaj-Lis9
NO Norway≈50 est.≈1 in 111K124Maj-Lis6
DK Denmark191 in 309K19Maj-Lis12
US United States≈19 est.≈1 in 18MlistedMaj-Lis3
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——

3,193 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling maj-lis. 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)

Maj-Lis is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Australia, Finland

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Majlis

  • Spanish given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Majlis

  • Chinese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Sweden

    Also written Majlis

  • French name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Majlis

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Majlis

  • Hindi name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Majlis

18 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.

Notable people with this name

(measured from records)
192019301940Maj-Lis Landberg, b. 1922Maj-Lis Rajala, b. 1930Liisa Taxell, b. 1931
  • Maj-Lis Landbergb. 1922SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician (1922-1991)
  • Maj-Lis Rajalab. 1930FInot in their usual nameFinnish ballet dancer (1930–2023)
  • Liisa Taxellb. 1931FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress (1931-1974)

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)
InformalHej Maj-Lis,Hi Maj-Lis, (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)

9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 5 countries.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Maj-Lis mean, and where does it come from?
From Maj + Lis; short form of Maria Elisabeth, comparable to English Mary Beth. Recorded by Wiktionary.
How do you pronounce Maj-Lis?
It depends on the language: in Swedish /majliːs/; in Finnish /mɑjlis/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
Is Maj-Lis a male or female name?
Maj-Lis is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Finland (DVV) and Norway (SSB).
Which countries have the most people named Maj-Lis?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Maj-Lis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled Maj-Lis. After it come Finland, Norway, Denmark and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
Where is Maj-Lis most common?
Maj-Lis is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.2 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Maj-Lis?
In Sweden, the national register counted 3,193 people named Maj-Lis, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.

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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, “Maj-Lis” — ranked 794th in Sweden (Skatteverket). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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