Smilja
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Smilja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 3.6K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 4.2K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 11K
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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 32 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.6K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700 people, est.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Smilja 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #299 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Smilja | 22 |
| HR Croatia | #431 | 1,188 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.2K | Smilja | 23 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #776 | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Smilja | 5 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 171 | 1 in 12K | 171 | Smilja | 6 |
| US United States | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 3M | — | Smilja | 32 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈81 est. | ≈1 in 109K | 3 | — | — |
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); SURS — resident population given names; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)
- Smilja Avramovb. 1918HRExpert in international law, past member of the Senate of Republika Srpska
- Smilja Vujosevicb. 1935CACanadian chess player
- Smilja Marjanović-Dušanićb. 1963RSSerbian historian, professor
- Smilja AmonSIresearcher
- Smilja Repič-BurgarSIresearcher
- Smilja KnezSIresearcher
- Smilja ČernelčSIresearcher
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 15 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.2K | #496 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 925 | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 192 | #429 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 192 | #417 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 191 | #435 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 191 | #423 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 190 | #413 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 189 | #446 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 189 | #447 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 185 | #460 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 185 | #455 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 178 | #469 |
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
- Is Smilja a male or female name?
- Smilja is a female 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 Smilja have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 thousand people named Smilja in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled smilja.
- Where is Smilja most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Smilja is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 3.6 thousand people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Smilja?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,188 people named Smilja in 2021, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Smilja compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Smilja is the 299th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/smiljaThe 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, “Smilja” — the 299th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.