Names of Serbia RS

The names that most distinguish Serbia from the rest of the world are Dragan, Zoran and Jovanović; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Serbia are Dragan and Jovanović.

Written in Serbian, Hungarian.

Population: 7M
Name forms recorded: 33K

CBuilt from 2 sub-national, 33,267 name forms in our corpus, 7 cited works.

No official register found for this country — the ranking below is our record corpus alone.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

fewerlarger share

Where the names most characteristic of Serbia are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Serbia included.

How names work in Serbia

2 naming traditions are in use in Serbia, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.

The most common names in Serbia

Every record we hold for Serbia — 33,267 name forms across historical registers, the diaspora and several decades of births. Not a census.
#	Name	Estimated bearers	How common
3	Dragan	—	—
4	Milan	—	—
5	Zoran	—	—
8	Miloš	—	—
10	Milica	—	—
11	Dejan	—	—
12	Ivana	—	—
13	Goran	—	—
16	Dragana	—	—
17	Nenad	—	—
18	Dušan	—	—
20	Vladimir	—	—
22	Nemanja	—	—
23	Mirjana	—	—
25	Slobodan	—	—
26	Snežana	—	—
27	Miroslav	—	—
28	Saša	—	—
29	Vesna	—	—
30	Jovana	—	—
31	Bojan	—	—
32	Ljiljana	—	—
33	Sanja	—	—
34	Đorđe	—	—
35	Biljana	—	—
36	Predrag	—	—
37	Danijela	—	—
39	Petar	—	—
40	Gordana	—	—
41	Katarina	—	—
42	Nebojša	—	—
43	Milena	—	—
44	Darko	—	—
45	Branko	—	—
46	Željko	—	—
47	Maja	—	—
48	Slađana	—	—
49	Igor	—	—
50	Bojana	—	—
51	Zorica	—	—
52	Svetlana	—	—
53	Slavica	—	—
54	Miodrag	—	—
55	Jasmina	—	—
57	Branislav	—	—
60	Milorad	—	—
63	Tijana	—	—
68	Vladan	—	—
69	Nevena	—	—
70	Mladen	—	—
71	Dragica	—	—
72	Srđan	—	—
73	Nada	—	—
74	Uroš	—	—
75	Radmila	—	—
76	Siniša	—	—
78	Mirko	—	—
80	Ljubiša	—	—
81	Radovan	—	—
82	Ljubica	—	—
83	Dalibor	—	—
84	Suzana	—	—
85	Branka	—	—
86	Milovan	—	—
88	Tomislav	—	—
89	Vera	—	—
90	Veljko	—	—
91	Rade	—	—
92	Jovica	—	—
93	Boban	—	—
94	Srdjan	—	—
95	Sandra	—	—
96	Danica	—	—
97	Slavko	—	—
99	Radomir	—	—
100	Milenko	—	—
101	Slaviša	—	—
102	Ivica	—	—
103	Andjela	—	—
104	Dušica	—	—
105	Dragiša	—	—
106	Verica	—	—
107	Duško	—	—
108	Vanja	—	—
109	Dragoljub	—	—
111	Andrija	—	—
112	Boris	—	—
113	Dijana	—	—
114	Dragoslav	—	—
115	Violeta	—	—
116	Ognjen	—	—
117	Žarko	—	—
118	Ljubomir	—	—
120	Teodora	—	—
121	Milka	—	—
123	Aleksa	—	—
124	Ružica	—	—
125	Radoslav	—	—
126	Dušanka	—	—

No official register

We have not found a published name register for Serbia at an authority tier we would headline. 2 sub-national register(s) exist and are listed below, but a regional list is not a national one. The ranking above is our record corpus, and it is labelled as such. If you publish or know of a register for this country, we would like to hear about it.

Characteristic of Serbia

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Serbia holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

Sized by how much of the difference between Serbia's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

The best-attested names in Serbia, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

The Latin alphabet here is not the ASCII one. Stripping diacritics merges names that are not the same name and changes how they are pronounced, and a record that has been ASCII-folded has lost information no amount of guessing recovers.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Sub-national registers

2 registers for Serbia publish regional lists only (RZS RS — given names (Republika Srpska); SORS — annual birth names). A regional list is not a national one, and summing regions would be an aggregate the publisher never made, so no figure on this page comes from them.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

Bosnia and Herzegovina Naming Customsgenealogy
Bosnian Surnamesgenealogy
Croatian nameencyclopaedia
Serbia Naming Customsgenealogy
Serbian nameencyclopaedia
Slavic surnamesgenealogy
Why do most Serbian surnames end in -ić?web

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there an official list of the most common names in Serbia?: We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
Is there one naming system in Serbia?: No — 2 are described on this page (Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Serbia”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/RS (data snapshot 2026-09-12).