Delija
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Delija is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Kosovo than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 8.2K(measured from records)
- XKKosovo≈1 in 3K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 9.6K
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.
- Kosovo (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
≈650 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Kosovo, est.
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.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Delija 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | #471 | ≈650 est. | ≈1 in 3K | 38 | Delija | 2 |
| HR Croatia | — | 518 | 1 in 8.2K | 518 | Delija | 31 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Delija | 7 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 280 | 1 in 30K | 280 | Delija | 6 |
| RS Serbia | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Delija | 16 |
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); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alban Delijab. 1987XKKosovan sport cyclist
- Ante Delijab. 1990HRCroatian mixed martial arts fighter
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 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 38 | #4,847 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 12 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1957 | 3 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1936 | 3 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1985 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1971 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1968 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1965 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1958 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1943 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1922 | 2 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | 1986 | 1 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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
- In which country does Delija have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 648 people named Delija in Kosovo, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled delija.
- How common is the name Delija?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 518 people named Delija in 2021, about 1 in 8.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Delija compared with other names?
- In Kosovo, Delija is the 471st most common surname of 4,329 surnames 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/delijaThe 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, “Delija” — the 471st most common surname in Kosovo. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.