Slobodan

given name · Croatian · Latin script

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

Slobodan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is the 25th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Serbian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: free (not imprisoned).

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia1 in 166◐
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 348
  • MKNorth Macedonia1 in 630

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

≈9.3K ●

across 10 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
143 ●

41K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 630 ◐

North Macedonia

Spellings & scripts●

SlobodanLatin · Croatian●43K records
СлободанCyrillic · Macedonian●3.5K records

Locally spelled Слободан in MK North Macedonia, RU Russia, BG Bulgaria and 1 more.

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●

free (not imprisoned)

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Slobodan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#2519,28013K rec.—listedSlobodan92
HR Croatia#2363,69711K rec.1 in 1.1K3.7KSlobodan82
MK North Macedonia#953,376△74 rec.1 in 6303.4KСлободан33
DE Germany—2,1892K rec.—1Slobodan92
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#321,271100 rec.——Slobodan29
SI Slovenia#411913△48 rec.1 in 2.3K913Slobodan15
AT Austria—847403 rec.—42Slobodan49
XK Kosovo#54837439 rec.—1.4KSlobodan3
AU Australia—818759 rec.—1Slobodan56
KG Kyrgyzstan—7940 rec.——Slobodan1
US United States—6366.9K rec.1 in 523K636Slobodan143
GB United Kingdom—462305 rec.——Slobodan38

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

Languages●

  • Croatian43K63%
  • Serbian7K10%
  • English4.7K7%
  • German3.2K5%
  • French2K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian43,09963%
Serbian7,00810%
English4,6607%
German3,2045%
French1,9973%

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◐

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

  • French given name3.7K records spelled Slobodan6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Serbia, United States, Spain

    Languages: French, Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Slobodàn

  • Ukrainian given name272 records spelled Slobodan9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Serbia, Türkiye, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Belarusian

    Also written Слободан, Slobodân, Слабадан

34 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.

Over time●

050100150192019401960198020002020139 · 1989

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Slobodan in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1904–2024
Yearrecords
19041
19082
19102
19122
19135
19143
19153
19171
19184
19193
19205
19212
19224
19233
19245
19258
19262
19272
19287
19295
19303
19324
19335
19344
19356
19368
19379
19388
19395
194013
194128
194261
194364
1944103
194588
194662
194739
194835
194935
195027
195121
195227
195323
195427
195514
195615
19574
195816
195911
196014
196112
196215
196311
196410
196511
196613
19679
19683
19698
19706
197110
19727
19737
197410
19757
19764
19777
197810
19799
19804
19815
19825
19832
19843
19855
19867
19878
198845
1989139
199067
199128
199220
19939
19943
19955
19974
19981
19993
20002
20021
20042
20052
20062
20081
20091
20101
20112
20121
20131
20151
20161
20181
20201
20231
20241

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 105 years between 1904–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Slobodan Jovanović, b. 1869Slobodan Milošević, b. 1941Slobodan Praljak, b. 1945Slobodan Santrač, b. 1946Slobodan Samardžić, b. 1953Slobodan Dubajić, b. 1963Slobodan Živojinović, b. 1963Slobodan Komljenović, b. 1971Slobodan Boškan, b. 1975Slobodan Rajković, b. 1989

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 34 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Slobodan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20213.7K#251
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20212.9K—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—1.4K#554
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2021937#187
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2020924#185
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022915#197
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025913#198
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024909#196
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—908#419
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023904#197
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019877#190
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2018826#189

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 · 219 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Slobodan?
We estimate roughly 9.3 thousand people bear Slobodan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Slobodan have the most bearers?
Slobodan is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled slobodan.
How common is Slobodan compared with other names?
In Serbia, Slobodan is the 25th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.
Is Slobodan a male or female name?
Slobodan 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 Slobodan mean?
Recorded meaning: free (not imprisoned)
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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, “Slobodan” — the 25th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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