Mitja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom. russischer Herkunft,
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/míːtja/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mitja is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 26th most common given name.
- SISlovenia1 in 316(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 14K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 43K
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 316 (inferred from the name graph)
6,648 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)
männl. Vom. russischer Herkunft,
Sources 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mitja 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.
6,648 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; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mitja is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Catalan, stocking
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)
- Mitja Nikischb. 1899DEGerman musician (1899–1936)
- Samuel Mitja Rapoportb. 1912DEAmerican biochemist (1912–2004)
- Mitja Ribičičb. 1919SIYugoslav politician (1919–2013)
- Mitya Fominb. 1974RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer, dancer, producer
- Mitja Okornb. 1981SISlovene film director and screenwriter
- Mitja Mörecb. 1983SISlovenian footballer
- Mitja Gasparinib. 1984SISlovene volleyball player
- Mitja Mežnarb. 1988SISlovenian ski jumper
- Mitja Nikolićb. 1991SISlovene basketball player
- Mitja Ileničb. 2004SISlovenian 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).
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 33 sources across 20 countries.
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
- What does the name Mitja mean, and where does it come from?
- männl. Vom. russischer Herkunft, Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- How do you pronounce Mitja?
- A machine transcription gives /míːtja/ (IPA) for Slovenian.
- Is Mitja a male or female name?
- Mitja 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 Mitja?
- In the etymology graph, Demetrio, Dimitri and Dumitru are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mitja have the most bearers?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted about 6.6 thousand people named Mitja, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mitja.
- Where is Mitja most common?
- Mitja is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 316 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mitja?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 6,648 people named Mitja in 2025, about 1 in 316 residents.
- How common is Mitja compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Mitja is the 26th most common given name of 4,300 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mitja?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mitjaThe 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, “Mitja” — the 26th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.