Neven
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Neven is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country. In Croatian, recorded as marigold.
- HRCroatia1 in 980(measured from records)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 4.6K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 9K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 106 (measured from records)
- 1 in 980 (inferred from the name graph)
4,314 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
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)
marigold
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Neven is read(measured from records)
Neven is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Croatian36%
marigold
as a wordrecorded as Serbo-Croatiankaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Arabic35%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Neven in Arabic.
- English12%
To give as a name to; name; call (someone something).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- French5.1%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Neven in French.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Neven 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 | #237 | 4,314 | 1 in 980 | 4.3K | Neven | 100 |
| US United States | — | 847 | 1 in 393K | 545 | Neven | 106 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #421 | ≈840 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Neven | 23 |
| RS Serbia | #598 | ≈780 est. | ≈1 in 9K | — | Neven | 33 |
| SY Syria | — | ≈740 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Neven | 2 |
| BG Bulgaria | — | ≈460 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Neven | 47 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 113 | 1 in 19K | 113 | Neven | 8 |
4,314 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names. 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)
Neven is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, third-person plural present indicative of nevar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Norwegian Nynorsk, definite singular of neve
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Galician, inflection of nevar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Dutch, beside, next to
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)
- Neven Juricab. 1952HRCroatian diplomat and politician
- Neven Mimicab. 1953HRCroatian politician and diplomat
- Neven Budakb. 1957HRCroatian historian and professor
- Neven Spahijab. 1962HRCroatian basketball head coach
- Neven Ljubičićb. 1963HRCroatian physician
- Neven Pajkićb. 1977CACanadian boxer
- Neven Venkovb. 1982BGBulgarian footballer
- Neven Žugajb. 1983HRwrestler
- Neven Vukmanb. 1985HRCroatian footballer
- Neven Subotićb. 1988USSerbian footballer
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 54 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 224 | #88,925 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 204 | #85,297 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 200 | #91,981 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Neven mean, and where does it come from?
- marigold Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Neven a male or female name?
- Neven 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.
- In which country does Neven have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Neven, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled neven.
- Where is Neven most common?
- Neven is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 980 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Neven?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 4,314 people named Neven in 2021, about 1 in 980 residents.
- How common is Neven compared with other names?
- In Croatia, Neven is the 237th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/nevenThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 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, “Neven” — the 237th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.