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
/majli:s/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maj-Lis is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. 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
- NONorway≈1 in 180K
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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 26 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
3,193 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Maj-Lis Lüningb. 1919SEnot in their usual nameSwedish actress and writer
- Maj-Lis Landbergb. 1922SEnot in their usual nameSwedish politician (1922-1991)
- Maj-Lis Holmbergb. 1922FInot in their usual nameFinnish university lecturer, translator and poet who wrote in Swedish
- Maj-Lis Ehnbergb. 1924FInot in their usual nameFinnish writer
- Maj-Lis Rosenbröijerb. 1926FInot in their usual nameFinnish landscape architect (1926-2003)
- Maj-Lis Rajalab. 1930FInot in their usual nameFinnish ballet dancer (1930–2023)
- Liisa Taxellb. 1931FInot in their usual nameFinnish actress (1931-1974)
- Maj-Lis Skaltjeb. 1940SEnot in their usual nameSaami journalist, author, director, and artist from Sweden
- Maj-Lis ÅbergFInot in their usual nameFinnish cyclist
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)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.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2002 | 3.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2003 | 3.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2004 | 3.7K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2005 | 3.6K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2006 | 3.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2007 | 3.5K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2008 | 3.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2009 | 3.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 3.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 3.2K | #794 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 3.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 3.1K | — |
Reference works 2
- 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
- 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?
- A machine transcription gives /majli:s/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- 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).
- In which country does Maj-Lis have the most bearers?
- 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.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Maj-Lis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maj-lisThe 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, “Maj-Lis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.