Dejan

given name · Croatian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Dejan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Dejan är ett sydslaviskt namn bildat till den slaviska roten děj- ’handling’.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia1 in 103◐
  • SISlovenia1 in 247
  • MKNorth Macedonia1 in 252

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈27K ●

across 13 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
142 ●

74K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 247 ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

DejanLatin · Croatian●70K records
ДејанCyrillic · Macedonian●8.9K records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Deyan in BG Bulgaria, ES Spain, PL Poland, Дејан in MK North Macedonia, FR France and Деян in RU Russia, TR Türkiye.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

recorded in Swedish

Dejan är ett sydslaviskt namn bildat till den slaviska roten děj- ’handling’. Även formen Dean förekommer.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Dejan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#1131,18720K rec.——Dejan95
BG Bulgaria#1519,9922.2K rec.——Deyan105
SI Slovenia#358,498△1.2K rec.1 in 2478.6KDejan67
MK North Macedonia#218,433△238 rec.1 in 2528.4KДејан52
HR Croatia#1556,93915K rec.1 in 6096.9KDejan121
DE Germany—6,4855.8K rec.—1Dejan136
AT Austria#5073,6111.8K rec.—237Dejan81
AU Australia—2,4702.2K rec.—2Dejan111
GB United Kingdom—1,464866 rec.—listedDejan41
KG Kyrgyzstan—1,4090 rec.——Dejan1
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#291,301124 rec.——Dejan38
US United States—1,29512K rec.1 in 257K1.3KDejan142

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Croatian70K47%
  • Hungarian17K12%
  • English10K7%
  • German10K7%
  • Serbian10K7%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian69,51047%
Hungarian17,36212%
English10,4427%
German10,2467%
Serbian10,1737%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dejan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name7.9K records spelled Dejan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Serbia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Dejàn, Déjan

  • French given name7.5K records spelled Dejan5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Serbia, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Déjan, Déjàn, Dējan

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name2.1K records spelled Dejan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Serbia

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Deján

  • Czech given name1.3K records spelled Dejan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Deján

  • Indonesian given name1.1K records spelled Dejan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Serbia, United States, Spain

    Also written Dêjan

  • Polish given name1.1K records spelled Dejan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Serbia, United States, Slovenia

    Also written Déjan

40 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Dejan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Russian, var of Deian.

    as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

  • In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of dejar

    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.

Over time●

025507510019201940196019802000202090 · 1971

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Dejan in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1905–2025
Yearrecords
19051
19071
19161
19221
19291
19371
19421
19481
19521
19571
19593
19604
19613
19628
19636
196412
196517
196618
196726
196839
196953
197046
197190
197265
197384
197456
197561
197658
197757
197840
197946
198038
198140
198231
198325
198426
198532
198619
198719
198815
198913
19908
199114
199212
199320
199412
199514
199612
199716
199812
199912
20007
20018
200211
20037
20043
20058
20061
20075
20084
20092
20101
20121
20151
20162
20222
20241
20251

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 68 years between 1905–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

196019802000Dejan Savićević, b. 1966Dejan Bodiroga, b. 1973Dejan Stanković, b. 1978Dejan Bojović, b. 1983Dejan Milovanović, b. 1984Dejan Lovren, b. 1989Dejan Davidovac, b. 1995Dejan Ljubičić, b. 1997Dejan Georgievski, b. 1999Dejan Kulusevski, b. 2000

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●

Attested in 68 sources across 34 countries.

Official registers attesting Dejan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—8.6K#41
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20258.5K#26
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20216.9K#154
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20216K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.3K#10,118
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1.3K#597
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1K#1,654
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020944—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—930#1,726
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2022605#2,494
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)2024237#819
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025234—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 516 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dejan?
We estimate roughly 27 thousand people bear Dejan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Dejan have the most bearers?
Dejan is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled dejan.
How common is Dejan compared with other names?
In Serbia, Dejan is the 11th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.
Is Dejan a male or female name?
Dejan 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 does the name Dejan mean?
Recorded meaning: Dejan är ett sydslaviskt namn bildat till den slaviska roten děj- ’handling’.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Dejan” — the 11th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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