Milovan
given name · Croatian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Milovan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is the 86th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: masculine singular passive past participle of milovati.
- RSSerbia1 in 540◐
- HRCroatia1 in 5.8K
- MEMontenegro1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.7K ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 67 ●
- 1 in 5.8K ◐
across 13 countries
recorded for this name
11K records
Official registry-verified
Croatia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Милован in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia, BG Bulgaria.
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●
masculine singular passive past participle of milovati
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #86 | 5,940 | 4.1K rec. | — | listed | Milovan | 57 |
| HR Croatia | #539 | 724 | 4.3K rec. | 1 in 5.8K | 724 | Milovan | 29 |
| XK Kosovo | #244 | 362 | 115 rec. | — | 465 | Milovan | 2 |
| SI Slovenia | #745 | 314△ | 6 rec. | 1 in 6.7K | 314 | Milovan | 5 |
| MK North Macedonia | #927 | 311△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 6.8K | 311 | Милован | 4 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #283 | 270 | 33 rec. | — | — | Milovan | 16 |
| US United States | — | 174 | 808 rec. | 1 in 1.9M | 174 | Milovan | 67 |
| ME Montenegro | #100 | 132 | 56 rec. | — | — | Milovan | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 88△ | 13 rec. | 1 in 116K | 88 | Milovan | 8 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 65 | 45 rec. | — | — | Milovan | 8 |
| RU Russia | — | 64 | 54 rec. | — | — | Милован | 16 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 61 | 0 rec. | — | — | Milovan | 1 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Croatian12K56%
- Spanish3K14%
- Serbian1.5K7%
- English1.3K6%
- French8304%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Croatian | 12,167 | 56% |
| Spanish | 3,045 | 14% |
| Serbian | 1,525 | 7% |
| English | 1,294 | 6% |
| French | 830 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Milovan 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, "to cherish."
as a wordA 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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1956 | 1 |
| 1959 | 1 |
| 1962 | 1 |
| 1964 | 4 |
| 1967 | 3 |
| 1968 | 1 |
| 1969 | 1 |
| 1972 | 2 |
| 1974 | 3 |
| 1979 | 1 |
| 1980 | 3 |
| 1984 | 1 |
| 1985 | 1 |
| 1987 | 3 |
| 1989 | 2 |
| 1990 | 1 |
| 1991 | 2 |
| 1994 | 1 |
| 1995 | 2 |
| 1996 | 1 |
| 1997 | 10 |
| 1998 | 9 |
| 1999 | 14 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 13 |
| 2002 | 20 |
| 2003 | 60 |
| 2004 | 99 |
| 2005 | 84 |
| 2006 | 63 |
| 2007 | 47 |
| 2008 | 54 |
| 2009 | 89 |
| 2010 | 88 |
| 2011 | 82 |
| 2012 | 80 |
| 2013 | 86 |
| 2014 | 70 |
| 2015 | 63 |
| 2016 | 68 |
| 2017 | 57 |
| 2018 | 44 |
| 2019 | 45 |
| 2020 | 51 |
| 2021 | 43 |
CL SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) — 48 years between 1934–2021. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Milovan Milovanovićb. 1863RSSerbian politician, diplomat and constitutional lawyer (1863-1912)
- Milovan Đilasb. 1911MEYugoslav politician, theorist and author (1911-1995)
- Milovan Ćirićb. 1918RSSerbian football manager (1918–1986)
- Milovan Vitezovićb. 1944RSSerbian writer
- Milovan Đorićb. 1945RSSerbian footballer
- Mike Bakićb. 1952CAnot in their usual nameCanadian soccer player
- Milovan Rajevacb. 1954RSSerbian footballer
- Milovan Drecunb. 1957RSSerbian journalist and politician
- Milovan Rakovićb. 1985RSSerbian basketball player (born 1985)
- Milovan Kaporb. 1991CACanadian 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●
Attested in 39 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 724 | #631 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 492 | — |
| XK Kosovo | ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) | — | 465 | #1,233 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 349 | #350 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2021 | 343 | #359 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 342 | #312 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 341 | #307 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 339 | #349 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 338 | #310 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 336 | #317 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 334 | #341 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 331 | #335 |
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 · 270 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Milovan?
- We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Milovan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
- In which country does Milovan have the most bearers?
- Milovan is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled milovan.
- How common is Milovan compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Milovan is the 86th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.
- Is Milovan a male or female name?
- Milovan 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 Milovan mean?
- Recorded meaning: masculine singular passive past participle of milovati
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About this data
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, “Milovan” — the 86th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.