Nenad

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ненад in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia, BG Bulgaria and นนาดี in TH Thailand.

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 in 1 language 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◐

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

• French given name6.7K records spelled Nenad6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, Serbia, United States, Bolivia

  Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Nenád

• Russian given name566 records spelled Nenad6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Türkiye

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Ненад

37 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●

Nenad is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Russian, "no need."

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

• In English, A male given name from the Slavic languages.

  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●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 86 years between 1919–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Nenad Maslovarb. 1967MEMontenegrin association football player
• Knezb. 1967MEnot in their usual nameMontenegrin singer
• Nenad Markovićb. 1968BASpanish basketball player
• Nenad Bjelicab. 1971HRCroatian footballer
• Nenad Zimonjićb. 1976RSSerbian tennis player and coach (born 1976)
• Nenad Đorđevićb. 1979RSSerbian association football player
• Nenad Milijašb. 1983RSSerbian footballer
• Nenad Krstićb. 1983RSSerbian basketball player (born 1983)
• Nenad Tomovićb. 1987RSSerbian footballer
• Nenad Krstičićb. 1990RSSerbian 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 · 230 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Nenad?

We estimate roughly 16 thousand people bear Nenad (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.

In which country does Nenad have the most bearers?

Nenad is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled nenad.

How common is Nenad compared with other names?

In Serbia, Nenad is the 17th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.

Is Nenad a male or female name?

Nenad 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 Nenad mean?

Recorded meaning: Nenad är ett sydslaviskt namn som betyder ’överraskande (oväntad)’.