Dragoslav

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Драгослав in MK North Macedonia.

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 7 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◐

Dragoslav is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name49 records spelled Dragoslav4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Драгослав

33 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●

Dragoslav is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Russian, "precious glory."

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

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●

• Dragoslav Protićb. 1902Yugoslav dipomat and UN official
• Dragoslav Račićb. 1905RSSerbian war commander
• Dragoslav Avramovićb. 1919MKYugoslav/Serbian economist and politician
• Dragoslav Mihailovićb. 1930RSSerbian writer (1930–2023)
• Dragoslav Jakovljevićb. 1932RSYugoslav boxer
• Dragoslav Šekularacb. 1937RSSerbian footballer (1937-2019)
• Dragoslav Ilićb. 1939RSSerbian actor and screenwriter
• Dragoslav Ražnatovićb. 1941RSYugoslav basketball player
• Dragoslav Stepanovićb. 1948RSSerbian footballer (1948-)
• Dragoslav Jevrićb. 1974RSSerbian footballer

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 · 130 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dragoslav?

We estimate roughly 1.0 thousand people bear Dragoslav (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Dragoslav have the most bearers?

Dragoslav is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled dragoslav.

How common is Dragoslav compared with other names?

In Serbia, Dragoslav is the 114th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.

Is Dragoslav a male or female name?

Dragoslav 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.