Dejan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Dejan är ett sydslaviskt namn bildat till den slaviska roten děj- ’handling’
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/d̪e˨˦jan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dejan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 10th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 93(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 247
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 520
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 Dejan 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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 198 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 93 (inferred from the name graph)
≈75,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Дејан 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)
Dejan är ett sydslaviskt namn bildat till den slaviska roten děj- ’handling’. Även formen Dean förekommer.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dejan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #10 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 93 | — | Dejan | 114 |
| SI Slovenia | #12 | 8,498 | 1 in 247 | 8.6K | Dejan | 79 |
| MK North Macedonia | #6 | 8,433as Дејан | 1 in 252 | 8.4K | Дејан | 65 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #28 | ≈7,400 est. | ≈1 in 520 | — | Dejan | 41 |
| HR Croatia | #158 | 6,939 | 1 in 609 | 6.9K | Dejan | 124 |
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); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Dejan 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 Russian, var of Deian.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of dejar
as a wordkaikki.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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Dejan Savićevićb. 1966MEMontenegrin footballer
- Dejan Bodirogab. 1973RSSerbian basketball player (born 1973)
- Dejan Stankovićb. 1978RSSerbian association football manager and former player
- Dejan Bojovićb. 1983RSvolleyball player
- Dejan Milovanovićb. 1984RSSerbian footballer (1984–2025)
- Dejan Lovrenb. 1989HRCroatian association football player (born 1989)
- Dejan Davidovacb. 1995RSSerbian basketball player (born 1995)
- Dejan Ljubičićb. 1997ATAustrian association football player
- Dejan Georgievskib. 1999MKMacedonian Taekwondo practitioner
- Dejan Kulusevskib. 2000SESwedish footballer (born 2000)
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 70 sources across 34 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 8.6K | #41 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 8.5K | #26 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 6.9K | #154 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 6K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2021 | 7 | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Dejan mean?
- Recorded meaning: Dejan är ett sydslaviskt namn bildat till den slaviska roten děj- ’handling’.
- Is Dejan a male or female name?
- Dejan 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.
- How do you pronounce Dejan?
- A machine transcription gives /d̪e˨˦jan/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- What are other forms of the name Dejan?
- In the etymology graph, Deyan is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dejan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 75 thousand people named Dejan in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dejan.
- How common is the name Dejan?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 8,498 people named Dejan in 2025, about 1 in 247 residents.
- How common is Dejan compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Dejan is the 10th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dejanThe 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, “Dejan” — the 10th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.