Drago

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Драго in RU Russia, MK North Macedonia, UA Ukraine.

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●

Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

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◐

Drago is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name38K records spelled Drago6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, Australia, Austria

  Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

  Also written Ďrago, Dragó

• French given name4.9K records spelled Drago3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, United States

  Languages: French, Catalan

  Also written Dragó

60 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●

Drago is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• corruptela de Aragão (d'Aragon, Dragon)

  as a name·Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

• In Italian, do latim draco, draconis, 'dragão'; sobrenome derivado de apelativo

  as a name·Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

• In Russian, "dear."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Catalan, first-person singular present indicative of dragar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Italian, dragon (legendary creature)

  as a word·kaikki.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●

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Drago Marušičb. 1884SISlovenian politician
• Drago Iblerb. 1894HRCroatian architect (1894–1964)
• Drago Galićb. 1907HRCroatian architect (1907–1992)
• Drago Siliqib. 1930ALAlbanian writer (1930-1963)
• Drago Mlinarecb. 1942HRCroatian rock musician
• Drago Jančarb. 1948SISlovenian writer
• Drago Štambukb. 1950HRCroatian physician and ambassador
• Drago Vabecb. 1950HRCroatian footballer (born 1950)
• Drago Mamićb. 1954RSfootballer
• Drago Vukovićb. 1983HRCroatian handball 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).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 338 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Drago?

We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Drago (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Drago have the most bearers?

We estimate about 7.8 thousand people bear Drago in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled drago.

Where is Drago most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Drago is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 419 people — even though Croatia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Drago compared with other names?

In Croatia, Drago is the 145th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Drago a male or female name?

Drago 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 Drago mean?

Recorded meaning: to be glad, pleased, delighted (in copulative constructs)