Goran

given name · Croatian · Latin script

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

Goran is a given name, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Bosnia & Herzegovina it is the 4th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Goran är ett populärt namn i de sydslaviska områdena där det kopplas till substantivet gora ’berg; höjd; skogsbeklätt berg’.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia1 in 109◐
  • SESweden1 in 139
  • HRCroatia1 in 187

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

≈117K ●

across 12 countries

4 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
179 ●

89K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 139 ◐

Sweden

Spellings & scripts●

GoranLatin · Croatian●179K records
ГоранCyrillic · Macedonian●12K records
고란Hangul · Korean●3 records
ΓκόρανGreek · Greek●1 records

Locally spelled Горан in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia, 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●

recorded in Swedish

Goran är ett populärt namn i de sydslaviska områdena där det kopplas till substantivet gora ’berg; höjd; skogsbeklätt berg’. Vissa forskare ser det som en bildning till namnet Gregor (→ Greger). Det är även ett kurdiskt namn och kan då betyda ’bergsbo’.

Sources 1

  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Goran is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#76273,532△787 rec.1 in 13974KGoran65
RS Serbia#1329,54421K rec.—listedGoran87
HR Croatia#3022,61749K rec.1 in 18723KGoran175
MK North Macedonia#811,389△241 rec.1 in 18711KГоран60
SI Slovenia—3,783△335 rec.1 in 5563.8KGoran63
FI Finland—2,823△17 rec.1 in 2K5.5KGoran8
BG Bulgaria#5162,282556 rec.——Goran56
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#42,276204 rec.——Goran50
US United States—1,6959K rec.1 in 196K1.7KGoran179
KG Kyrgyzstan—1,6370 rec.——Goran1
GB United Kingdom—1,097641 rec.——Goran62
CH Switzerland#954625511 rec.—7Goran44

Roughly 74K people in Sweden bear this name (about 1 in 139). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Croatian179K64%
  • Finnish15K5%
  • English15K5%
  • German12K4%
  • Serbian11K4%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian179,19964%
Finnish15,1185%
English14,9845%
German12,3274%
Serbian10,8904%

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◐

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

  • English given name36K records spelled Goran13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Germany, United States, Australia, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Göran, Goeran, Gorán, Gorân

  • French given name9.5K records spelled Goran6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Sweden

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Göran, Görän, Gorän, Goràn

  • Swedish given name5.5K records spelled Goran6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, United States

    Languages: Swedish, Norwegian Bokmål, Danish

    Also written Göran

  • Spanish given name5.2K records spelled Goran6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Argentina, Serbia

    Also written Göran, Gorán, Gorañ, Góran

  • Hindi given name4.9K records spelled Goran4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Sweden, United States, Serbia

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Göran

  • a separate given name2.0K records spelled Goran5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, India, Serbia

    Also written Göran, G̈̈̈̈̈öran, Go͏̈ran, Gõran

49 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●

Goran 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.

  • In German, männl. Vom., bulgarische, serbische, kroatische Ableitung von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • Hombre de la montaña

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • Uomo di montagna

    as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…

  • In Kurdish, Name of an ancient Kurdish tribe, also representing change and transformation

    as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

  • In English, A language spoken in the Djurab Desert region of Chad by the Daza people, part of the Nilo-Saharan language family.

    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●

0102030401920194019601980200036 · 1963

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Goran in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1918–2014
Yearrecords
19181
19191
19202
19216
19222
19231
19244
19257
19266
19273
19284
192911
19303
193129
19325
193314
193413
193514
193622
193713
19388
193913
194016
194114
194214
194314
194418
194513
194621
194713
194823
194915
195018
195120
195213
195317
195421
195521
195622
195720
195823
195923
196014
196124
196219
196336
196425
196520
196626
196720
196827
196916
197015
197125
19729
197317
19748
197512
19768
197716
19787
197911
198010
198115
198212
198313
19844
19855
19865
19871
19884
19895
19901
19913
19925
19935
19945
19952
19962
19982
20101
20111
20133
20141

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 84 years between 1918–2014. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Goran Paskaljević, b. 1947Goran Bregović, b. 1950Goran Hadžić, b. 1958Goran Ivanišević, b. 1971Goran Kostić, b. 1971Goran Višnjić, b. 1972Goran Vlaović, b. 1972Goran Pandev, b. 1983Goran Popov, b. 1984Goran Dragić, b. 1986

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 75 sources across 35 countries.

Official registers attesting Goran
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202123K#26
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202120K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20253.8K#72
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—3.8K#144
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.7K#8,541
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—1.5K#1,293
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.3K—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—1.2K#1,459
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1K#687
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2018885#2,545
NO NorwaySSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891)2025311—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026285#1,026

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 635 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Goran?
We estimate roughly 117 thousand people bear Goran (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Goran have the most bearers?
We estimate about 74 thousand people bear Goran in Sweden, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled goran.
How common is Goran compared with other names?
In Sweden, Goran is the 762nd most common given name of 36,824 given names recorded there.
Is Goran a male or female name?
Goran 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 Goran mean?
Recorded meaning: Goran är ett populärt namn i de sydslaviska områdena där det kopplas till substantivet gora ’berg; höjd; skogsbeklätt berg’.
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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, “Goran” — the 762nd most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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