Mitja
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom. russischer Herkunft, (DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen)
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 20 countries
/míːtja/(recorded in a dictionary) Slovenian · from Wiktionary
Mitja is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country: 6,648 people, counted by SURS in 2025, which ranks it 39th. Mitja is also written Митја in Cyrillic.
- SISlovenia1 in 316(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 14K
- HRCroatia1 in 90K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mitja itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Slovenia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 104 (measured from records)
- 1 in 316 (inferred from the name graph)
6,648 people, 2025
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Mitja in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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.
How to pronounce Mitja
- Slovenian:/míːtja/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)männl. Vom. russischer Herkunft,
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | #26 | 6,648 | 1 in 316 | 6.6K | Mitja | 104 |
| FI Finland | — | 393 | 1 in 14K | 395 | Mitja | 4 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 272K | 1 | Mitja | 22 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 91K | 16 | — | 1 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 98K | — | Mitja | 8 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈51 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Mitja | 4 |
| HR Croatia | — | 47 | 1 in 90K | 47 | Mitja | 23 |
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)
- Mitya Fominb. 1974RUnot in their usual nameRussian singer, dancer, producer
- Mitja Nikolićb. 1991SISlovene basketball player
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)No register attests this spelling yet
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.
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Mitja?
- In Slovenian /míːtja/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Mitja a male or female name?
- Mitja is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Slovenia (SURS, 2025) and Finland (DVV).
- Which countries have the most people named Mitja?
- 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. After it come Finland, Italy, Austria and Switzerland; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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” — ranked 39th in Slovenia (SURS, 2025). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.