Deyan

given name · Bulgarian · Latin script

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

Deyan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is the 11th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bulgarian and French, written in the Latin script.

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 · Croatian70K records
ДејанCyrillic · Macedonian8.9K records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Dejan in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, SI Slovenia and 17 more, 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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

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

Where Deyan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#1131,18720K rec.Dejan95
BG Bulgaria#1519,9922.2K rec.Deyan105
SI Slovenia#358,4981.2K rec.1 in 2478.6KDejan67
MK North Macedonia#218,433238 rec.1 in 2528.4KДејан52
HR Croatia#1556,93915K rec.1 in 6096.9KDejan121
DE Germany6,4855.8K rec.1Dejan136
AT Austria#5073,6111.8K rec.237Dejan81
AU Australia2,4702.2K rec.2Dejan111
GB United Kingdom1,464866 rec.listedDejan41
KG Kyrgyzstan1,4090 rec.Dejan1
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#291,301124 rec.Dejan38
US United States1,29512K 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

  • Bulgarian7K49%
  • French1.7K12%
  • English1.2K8%
  • Spanish9026%
  • Hindi6555%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Bulgarian7,03149%
French1,66912%
English1,2158%
Spanish9026%
Hindi6555%

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

Deyan is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name3.1K records spelled Deyan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Venezuela, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Deyán, Déyan, Deyàn, Dëyan

  • French given name2.2K records spelled Deyan5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Déyan, Dèyan, Déyàn

  • Turkish given name626 records spelled Deyan5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Syria

    Also written Deýan, Deyang

  • a separate given name515 records spelled Deyan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, China

    Also written De-Yan

38 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.

Over time

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Deyan in SURS — resident population given names, Slovenia, 2008–2025
Yearrecords
20086
20097
20107
20115
20125
20136
201410
201517
201619
201714
201819
201922
202022
202121
202220
202322
202424
202523

SI SURS — resident population given names18 years between 2008–2025. 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
  • Dejan Savićevićb. 1966MEnot in their usual nameMontenegrin footballer
  • Dejan Bodirogab. 1973RSnot in their usual nameSerbian basketball player (born 1973)
  • Dejan Stankovićb. 1978RSnot in their usual nameSerbian association football manager and former player
  • Dejan Bojovićb. 1983RSnot in their usual namevolleyball player
  • Dejan Milovanovićb. 1984RSnot in their usual nameSerbian footballer (1984–2025)
  • Dejan Lovrenb. 1989HRnot in their usual nameCroatian association football player (born 1989)
  • Dejan Davidovacb. 1995RSnot in their usual nameSerbian basketball player (born 1995)
  • Dejan Ljubičićb. 1997ATnot in their usual nameAustrian association football player
  • Dejan Georgievskib. 1999MKnot in their usual nameMacedonian Taekwondo practitioner
  • Dejan Kulusevskib. 2000SEnot in their usual nameSwedish footballer (born 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 42 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Deyan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020183#35,884
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)103#7,199
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)102#15,577
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)70#9,705
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)51#13,424
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)45#7,137
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)44#12,770
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202042
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202040#35,884
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls33#57,508
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)32#13,583
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202627#5,184

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • 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 · 195 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Deyan?
We estimate roughly 27 thousand people bear Deyan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Deyan have the most bearers?
Deyan is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled dejan.
How common is Deyan compared with other names?
In Serbia, Deyan is the 11th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.
Is Deyan a male or female name?
Deyan 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.
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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, “Deyan” — the 11th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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