Dušan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/d̪uʂan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
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.
- 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)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- 1 in 288 (inferred from the name graph)
29,944 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #126 | 29,944 | 1 in 357 | 30K | Dušan | 115 |
| RS Serbia | #17 | ≈24,000 est. | ≈1 in 292 | listed | Dušan | 115 |
| SI Slovenia | #51 | 7,290 | 1 in 288 | 7.3K | Dušan | 46 |
| HR Croatia | #86 | 5,656 | 1 in 747 | 5.7K | Dušan | 44 |
| SK Slovakia | #41 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Dušan | 125 |
| MK North Macedonia | #385 | 2,132as Душан | 1 in 997 | 2.1K | Душан | 12 |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Stefan Uroš IV Dušanb. 1308RSemperor of Serbia 1331–1355
- Dušan Simovićb. 1882RSFirst Prime Minister of Yugoslavia in exile (1882-1962)
- Dušan Makavejevb. 1932RSSerbian film director (1932-2019)
- Charles Simicb. 1938USnot in their usual nameSerbian born American poet (1938-2023)
- Dušan Ivkovićb. 1943RSbasketball coach (1943-2021)
- Dušan Bajevićb. 1948BABosnian footballer and manager
- Dušan Anđelkovićb. 1982RSSerbian football player
- Dušan Kuciakb. 1985SKSlovak footballer
- Dušan Šventob. 1985SKSlovak footballer
- Dušan Tadićb. 1988RSSerbian association football player (born 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 19 sources across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 30K | #120 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 15K | #133 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 15K | #133 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2008 | 8.5K | #27 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2009 | 8.5K | #28 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2010 | 8.4K | #29 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2011 | 8.3K | #29 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2012 | 8.3K | #29 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2013 | 8.2K | #29 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 8.1K | #29 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 8K | #29 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 8K | #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.
- How do you pronounce Dušan?
- A machine transcription gives /d̪uʂan/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- 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.
What do you want to know about Dušan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/du%C5%A1anThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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.