Dražen

given name · Latin script

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

Dražen is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country, where it is the 84th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 314(measured from records)
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 2.3K
  • MEMontenegro≈1 in 5.1K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Croatia (measured from records)

13,467 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
106 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 314 (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

DraženLatin(measured from records)
ДраженCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Dražen 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 Dražen is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#8413,4671 in 31413KDražen106
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#140≈1,600 est.≈1 in 2.3K—Dražen25
RS Serbia#400≈760 est.≈1 in 9.2K—Dražen30
SI Slovenia#8603391 in 6.2K339Dražen11
AT Austria—≈320 est.≈1 in 28K4——
ME Montenegro#94≈120 est.≈1 in 5.1K—Dražen15

13,467 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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)

Dražen is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Drazen

  • English given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Philippines, United Kingdom

    Also written Drazen

  • Italian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United States

    Also written Drazen

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Serbia, Türkiye

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Дражен, Drazen, Дразен

  • French given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Drazen, Drąźęn

24 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)

19201940196019802000Dražen Marović, b. 1938Dražen Budiša, b. 1948Dražen Dalipagić, b. 1951Dražen Mužinić, b. 1953Dražen Ladić, b. 1963Dražen Petrović, b. 1964Dražen Žerić, b. 1964Dražen Kühn, b. 1965Dražen Kutleša, b. 1968Dražen Bagarić, b. 1992

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 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Dražen
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)202113K#76
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)202112K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2025339#371
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024338#373
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2023337#366
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2021333#366
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2022331#366
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2020328#361
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019308#365
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2018301#367
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2017300#366
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2015299#355

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

Is Dražen a male or female name?
Dražen 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 are other forms of the name Dražen?
In the etymology graph, Dragan and Dragutin are forms of the same name in other languages; Draško is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Dražen have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 13 thousand people named Dražen, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dražen.
Where is Dražen most common?
Dražen is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 314 people carrying it.
How common is the name Dražen?
In Croatia, the national register counted 13,467 people named Dražen in 2021, about 1 in 314 residents.
How common is Dražen compared with other names?
In Croatia, Dražen is the 84th most common given name of 14,066 given names recorded there.

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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, “Dražen” — the 84th most common given name in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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