Given name
Nemanja
“no”·“flaw”
Nemanja is a masculine given name from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nemanja is built from elements meaning “no” and “flaw”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Proto-Slavic *maniti, built from Serbo-Croatian ne (“no”) + mana (“flaw”) + -ja.
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nemanja through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 50
- 50 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 445 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nemanja’s family of names
In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Nemanja is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Неманя. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Nemanja is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Немања.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Nemanja
- Nemanja VidićSerbian association football player (born 1981)
- Nemanja MatićSerbian association football playerborn 1988
- Nemanja MaksimovićSerbian association football playerborn 1995
- Nemanja GudeljSerbian footballerborn 1991
- Nemanja RadonjićSerbian professional footballerborn 1996
- Nemanja BjelicaSerbian basketball player (born 1988)
- Nemanja NikolićHungarian football player (b. 1987)
- Nemanja NedovićSerbian basketball player (born 1991)
- Nemanja RadojaSerbian footballerborn 1993
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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