Dušan

given name · Latin script

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

Dušan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. In Serbia it is the 17th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Derived from Serbo-Croatian Dušan.

rarermore common
  • SISlovenia1 in 288(measured from records)
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 292
  • CZCzechia1 in 357

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Dušan itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

29,944 people

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
198 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 288 (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DušanLatin(measured from records)
ДушанCyrillic(measured from records)
두산Hangul(measured from records)
ดูซานThai(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Душан in MK North Macedonia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derived from Serbo-Croatian Dušan.

Sources 2

Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dušan counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Dušan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#12629,9441 in 35730KDušan115
RS Serbia#17≈24,000 est.≈1 in 292listedDušan115
SI Slovenia#517,2901 in 2887.3KDušan46
HR Croatia#865,6561 in 7475.7KDušan44
SK Slovakia#41≈4,900 est.≈1 in 1.1K—Dušan125
MK North Macedonia#3852,132as Душан1 in 9972.1KДушан12

29,944 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); MVČR — living population register 2017; SURS — resident population given names; State Statistical Office — living population names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

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

  • a separate name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Duŝan, Dusán, Dus̆an, Duşan, Duśan

  • Russian given name17 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Душан, Дусан, Dusan, Dushan, Duŝan

36 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

12001400160018002000Stefan Uroš IV Dušan, b. 1308Dušan Simović, b. 1882Dušan Makavejev, b. 1932Charles Simic, b. 1938Dušan Ivković, b. 1943Dušan Bajević, b. 1948Dušan Anđelković, b. 1982Dušan Kuciak, b. 1985Dušan Švento, b. 1985Dušan Tadić, b. 1988

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(measured from records)

Attested in 19 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Dušan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—30K#120
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—15K#133
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—15K#133
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20088.5K#27
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20098.5K#28
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20108.4K#29
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20118.3K#29
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20128.3K#29
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20138.2K#29
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20148.1K#29
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20158K#29
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20168K#30

Reference works 2

  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Dušan have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Dušan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dušan.
Where is Dušan most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Dušan is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 288 people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
What does the name Dušan mean, and where does it come from?
Derived from Serbo-Croatian Dušan. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
How common is the name Dušan?
In Czechia, the national register counted 29,944 people named Dušan, about 1 in 357 residents.
How common is Dušan compared with other names?
In Czechia, Dušan is the 126th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
Is Dušan a male or female name?
Dušan 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.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Dušan” — the 126th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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