Nejc
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Nejc is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common given name.
- SISlovenia1 in 264(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 352K
- ATAustria≈1 in 377K
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
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 264 (inferred from the name graph)
7,956 people, 2025
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.
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Nejc 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 | #13 | 7,956 | 1 in 264 | 8K | Nejc | 97 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈76 est. | ≈1 in 1.1M | — | Nejc | 26 |
| US United States | — | ≈25 est. | ≈1 in 14M | — | Nejc | 33 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈24 est. | ≈1 in 377K | — | Nejc | 12 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 450K | — | Nejc | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | ≈18 est. | ≈1 in 986K | — | Nejc | 8 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | listed | — | 2 |
7,956 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: SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
- Jernej Zaplotnikb. 1952SInot in their usual nameSlovene mountaineer (1952-1983)
- Nejc Brodarb. 1982SISlovene cross-country skier
- Nejc Gazvodab. 1985SISlovene writer, screenwriter and director
- Nejc Pečnikb. 1986SISlovenian association football player
- Nejc Potokarb. 1988SISlovenian footballer (born 1988)
- Nejc Skubicb. 1989SISlovenian footballer
- Nejc Mevljab. 1990SISlovenian footballer
- Nejc Dežmanb. 1992SISlovenian ski jumper
- Nejc Plesecb. 1994SISlovenian footballer
- Nejc Krevsb. 1995SISlovenian journalist
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.
Reference works 3
- 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
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
- Is Nejc a male or female name?
- Nejc is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Nejc?
- In the etymology graph, Bart, Bartosz and Bartolomeu are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Jernej.
- In which country does Nejc have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 8.0 thousand people named Nejc, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nejc.
- Where is Nejc most common?
- Nejc is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 264 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Nejc?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 7,956 people named Nejc in 2025, about 1 in 264 residents.
- How common is Nejc compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Nejc is the 13th most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Nejc?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nejcThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Nejc” — the 13th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.