Marjan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: coral
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/mɑɹʒən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Marjan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- IRIran≈1 in 46K
- USUnited States1 in 196K
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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 242 (measured from records)
- 1 in 193 (inferred from the name graph)
10,918 people, 2025
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
coral
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Marjan 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 | #604 | 10,918 | 1 in 193 | 11K | Marjan | 25 |
| NL Netherlands | #246 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | 6.7K | Marjan | 101 |
| AF Afghanistan | #366 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.5K | — | Marjan | 11 |
| IR Iran | — | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 46K | — | Marjan | 53 |
| US United States | — | 1,701 | 1 in 196K | 1.4K | Marjan | 242 |
| HR Croatia | — | 1,612 | 1 in 2.6K | 1.6K | — | 1 |
| XK Kosovo | — | ≈620 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 674 | — | 1 |
10,918 people counted by SURS — resident population given names, 2025. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Marjan is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, small pearls, corals
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, Coral; jewel-like, precious.
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Finnish, genitive singular of marja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Marian Zdziechowskib. 1861RUnot in their usual namePolish philosopher (1861–1938)
- Marian Kropyvnytskyib. 1903UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian painter
- Marjan Rožancb. 1930SISlovenian writer (1930–1990)
- Marjan Kandusb. 1931SISlovenian basketball player (1931–2024)
- Marjan Luifb. 1947NLDutch actress (born 1947)
- Marjan van den Bergb. 1955NLDutch journalist
- Marjan Pejoskib. 1968MKMacedonian fashion designer
- Persia Peleb. 1974IRnot in their usual namePersian pornographic actress (born 1974)
- Marjan Neshatb. 1975IRIranian actress
- Marjan Šarecb. 1977SI9th Prime Minister of Slovenia
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)
Attested in 64 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 11K | #13 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 11K | #18 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 6.7K | #546 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.6K | #414 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.4K | #8,515 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.3K | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 674 | #942 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 307 | #8,515 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 18 | #20,756 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 13 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2001 | 5 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 2023 | 1 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Marjan mean, and where does it come from?
- coral Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- What are other forms of the name Marjan?
- In the etymology graph, Mae, Maureen and Mariano are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Marjan?
- A machine transcription gives /mɑɹʒən/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Marjan a male or female name?
- Marjan is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Marjan have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 11 thousand people named Marjan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled marjan.
- Where is Marjan most common?
- Marjan is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 193 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Marjan?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 10,918 people named Marjan in 2025, about 1 in 193 residents.
- How common is Marjan compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Marjan is the 604th most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/marjanThe 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, “Marjan” — the 604th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.