Names of Serbia RS
The names that most distinguish Serbia from the rest of the world are Dragan, Zoran and Miloš; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Serbia are Aleksandar and Jovanović.
Written in Serbian, Hungarian.
- Population
- 7M
- Name forms recorded
- 38K
No official register found for this country — the ranking below is our record corpus alone.
The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.
How names work in Serbia
2 naming traditions are in use in Serbia, listed in the order of the country's languages. They are separate systems, not variants of one, and each has its own page.
The most common names in Serbia
| # | Name | Estimated bearers | How common |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Aleksandar | — | — |
| 3 | Dragan | — | — |
| 4 | Zoran | — | — |
| 6 | Nikola | — | — |
| 7 | Miloš | — | — |
| 8 | Marko | — | — |
| 9 | Milica | — | — |
| 10 | Dejan | — | — |
| 11 | Goran | — | — |
| 12 | Ivana | — | — |
| 15 | Dragana | — | — |
| 16 | Nenad | — | — |
| 17 | Dušan | — | — |
| 18 | Vladimir | — | — |
| 19 | Aleksandra | — | — |
| 21 | Nemanja | — | — |
| 22 | Mirjana | — | — |
| 23 | Slobodan | — | — |
| 24 | Miroslav | — | — |
| 25 | Snežana | — | — |
No official register
Characteristic of Serbia
Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Serbia holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.
Scripts & spelling
The Latin alphabet here is not the ASCII one. Stripping diacritics merges names that are not the same name and changes how they are pronounced, and a record that has been ASCII-folded has lost information no amount of guessing recovers.
Countries whose names look alike
Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.
Registers & sources
Sub-national registers
Cited works
Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.
- Bosnia and Herzegovina Naming Customsgenealogy
- Bosnian Surnamesgenealogy
- Croatian nameencyclopaedia
- Serbia Naming Customsgenealogy
- Serbian nameencyclopaedia
- Slavic surnamesgenealogy
- Why do most Serbian surnames end in -ić?web
About this data
Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.
Data snapshot: 2026-10-09.
Questions
- Is there an official list of the most common names in Serbia?
- We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.
- Is there one naming system in Serbia?
- No — 2 are described on this page (Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian), and they are separate systems rather than variants of one.
Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Serbia”, https://mondonomo.ai/names/RS (data snapshot 2026-10-09).