Vedran

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Ведран 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.

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◐

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

• Ukrainian given name62 records spelled Vedran5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Türkiye, Serbia, United States

  Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

  Also written Ведран

31 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●

Vedran 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 English, A male given name from the Slavic languages.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In fur, celibate, unmarried

  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●

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●

• Vedran Smailovićb. 1956BABosnian musician
• Vedran Mlikotab. 1969HRCroatian actor
• Vedran Runjeb. 1976HRCroatian footballer
• Vedran Đipalob. 1977HRCroatian boxer
• Vedran Zrnićb. 1979HRCroatian handball player
• Vedran Ješeb. 1981HRCroatian footballer
• Vedran Celiščakb. 1982HRCroatian footballer
• Vedran Vukušićb. 1982HRCroatian basketball player (born 1982)
• Vedran Ćorlukab. 1986HRCroatian association football player
• Vedran Jugovićb. 1989HRCroatian 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 · 85 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Vedran?

We estimate roughly 10 thousand people bear Vedran (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Vedran have the most bearers?

We estimate about 8.4 thousand people bear Vedran in Croatia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled vedran.

Where is Vedran most common?

Vedran is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 504 people carrying it.

How common is Vedran compared with other names?

In Croatia, Vedran is the 136th most common given name of 13,510 given names recorded there.

Is Vedran a male or female name?

Vedran 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.