Nejc
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Meaning
“Slovene diminutive of Jernej, the Slovene form of Bartholomew”
The story
Nejc is a Slovene diminutive of Jernej, says Behind the Name, and the chain behind it is a very long walk: Jernej is the Slovene form of Bartholomew, the English form of the Greek Bartholomaios, itself from an Aramaic name meaning "son of Talmai"; in the New Testament, Bartholomew is the byname of an apostle, possibly the same person as the apostle Nathanael. The published American record carries no Nejc line in any decade, which is its own honest and rather charming fact: this is a name that lives in Slovenia and travels wherever Slovenes travel. Four languages stacked inside four letters, an apostle at the far end, and a spelling that tells you exactly which Alpine country the bearer's family calls home.
How popular is Nejc around the world?
Nejc does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
United States
under 5 a year
Nejc does not appear in US Social Security baby-name records, which list only names given to at least five babies in a year. There is no popularity curve to chart: a genuinely rare pick.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
Not on the record in Spain, Mexico City, Argentina, Puerto Rico, England and Wales, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and Scotland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the South Australia record for 1944 to 2017: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years.
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The Nejc deep dive
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