Goran
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A language spoken in the Djurab Desert region of Chad by the Daza people, part of the Nilo-Saharan language family
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɡo˨˦ran/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Goran is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In Bosnia & Herzegovina it is the 4th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 97(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 187
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 405
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 Goran 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.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 97 (inferred from the name graph)
73,532 people
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Горан 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)
Goran är ett populärt namn i de sydslaviska områdena där det kopplas till substantivet gora ’berg; höjd; skogsbeklätt berg’. Vissa forskare ser det som en bildning till namnet Gregor (→ Greger). Det är även ett kurdiskt namn och kan då betyda ’bergsbo’.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
How Goran is read(measured from records)
Goran is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Croatian60%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Goran in Croatian.
- English13%
A language spoken in the Djurab Desert region of Chad by the Daza people, part of the Nilo-Saharan language family.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- German7.4%
männl. Vom., bulgarische, serbische, kroatische Ableitung von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Goran 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | — | 73,532 | 1 in 139 | 74K | Goran | 60 |
| RS Serbia | #11 | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 97 | listed | Goran | 104 |
| HR Croatia | #36 | 22,617 | 1 in 187 | 23K | Goran | 183 |
| MK North Macedonia | #11 | 11,389as Горан | 1 in 187 | 11K | Горан | 74 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #4 | ≈9,500 est. | ≈1 in 405 | — | Goran | 53 |
73,532 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population), counting the spelling göran. 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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)
Goran is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Goran är ett populärt namn i de sydslaviska områdena där det kopplas till substantivet gora ’berg; höjd; skogsbeklätt berg’. Vissa forskare ser det som en bildning till namnet Gregor (→ Greger). Det är även ett kurdiskt namn och kan då betyda ’bergsbo’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Hombre de la montaña
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Uomo di montagna
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Kurdish, Name of an ancient Kurdish tribe, also representing change and transformation
as a wordkurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary
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)
- Goran Paskaljevićb. 1947RSSerbian film director and screenwriter (1947-2020)
- Goran Bregovićb. 1950BAmusician and composer from Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Goran Hadžićb. 1958RSCroatian Serb politician (1958-2016)
- Goran Ivaniševićb. 1971HRCroatian tennis player and coach
- Goran Kostićb. 1971BABosnia and Herzegovina actor
- Goran Višnjićb. 1972HRCroatian actor
- Goran Vlaovićb. 1972HRCroatian footballer
- Goran Pandevb. 1983MKMacedonian association football player (born 1983)
- Goran Popovb. 1984MKNorth Macedonian footballer
- Goran Dragićb. 1986SISlovenian basketball player (born 1986)
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 80 sources across 35 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 23K | #26 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 20K | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1.5K | #1,293 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 1.3K | — |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name 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
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
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
- How do you pronounce Goran?
- A machine transcription gives /ɡo˨˦ran/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- What does the name Goran mean?
- In English, A language spoken in the Djurab Desert region of Chad by the Daza people, part of the Nilo-Saharan language family.
- Is Goran a male or female name?
- Goran 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.
- In which country does Goran have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 74 thousand people named Goran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled goran.
- How common is the name Goran?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 73,532 people named Goran, about 1 in 139 residents.
- How common is Goran compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Goran is the 4th most common given name of 4,559 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/goranThe 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, “Goran” — the 4th most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.