Dragan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: sweetheart
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/drǎɡan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Dragan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 66(inferred from the name graph)
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 319
- HRCroatia1 in 340
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 Dragan 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
- 211 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 66 (inferred from the name graph)
≈110,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
sweetheart
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Dragan 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 | #3 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 66 | listed | Dragan | 122 |
| HR Croatia | #65 | 12,425 | 1 in 340 | 12K | Dragan | 113 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #3 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 319 | — | Dragan | 50 |
| RO Romania | — | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | — | Dragan | 27 |
| MK North Macedonia | #113 | 7,788as Драган | 1 in 273 | 7.8K | Dragan | 59 |
| SI Slovenia | #331 | 3,017 | 1 in 697 | 3K | Dragan | 32 |
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); State Statistical Office — living population names; SURS — resident population given 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)
Dragan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Dragan är ett slaviskt namn, en utvidgning av Draga, som använts som smekform till sammansättningar med Drag-. Namnet är bildat till ett slaviskt dorog- ’kär, dyrbar’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Amado, querido
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In Russian, "dear."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of dragar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In got, romanization of 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌽
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)
- Dragan Nikolićb. 1943RSSerbian actor (1943–2016)
- Dragan Džajićb. 1946RSSerbian footballer
- Dragan Kićanovićb. 1953RSbasketball player
- Dragan Čovićb. 1956BABosnian Croat politician
- Dragan Đokanovićb. 1958BABosnian politician of Serbian origin
- Dragan Stojkovićb. 1965RSSerbian association football player and manager
- Dragan Mićanovićb. 1970RSSerbian actor
- Dragan Mrđab. 1984RSSerbian footballer
- Dragan Labovićb. 1987RSSerbian basketball player (born 1987)
- Dragan Benderb. 1997HRCroatian basketball player (born 1997)
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 71 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 12K | #86 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 10K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 3K | #89 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 3K | #179 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 1995 | 6 | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Dragan mean, and where does it come from?
- sweetheart Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Dragan?
- A machine transcription gives /drǎɡan/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Dragan a male or female name?
- Dragan 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 Dragan?
- In the etymology graph, Dragutin and Dražen are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Dragan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 107 thousand people named Dragan in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dragan.
- How common is the name Dragan?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 12,425 people named Dragan in 2021, about 1 in 340 residents.
- How common is Dragan compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Dragan is the 3rd most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Dragan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/draganThe 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, “Dragan” — the 3rd most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.