Dobran
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Dobran is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country: 96 people, counted by DZS in 2021. Dobran is also written Добран in Cyrillic.
- HRCroatia1 in 44K(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 3.5M
- ESSpain1 in 8.3M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Croatia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 15 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
96 people, 2021
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Dobran in other scripts: Cyrillic
(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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where the surname Dobran is found
(measured from records)Dobran 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.
96 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); the us-wru-surnames-voterfile register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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)Dobran 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, "good."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
In Galician, third-person plural present indicative of dobrar
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.
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)12 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Dobran?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 96 people named Dobran, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled dobran. After it come Poland and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Dobran most common?
- Dobran is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 44 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Dobran?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 96 people named Dobran in 2021, about 1 in 44 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Dobran?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/dobranThe 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, “Dobran” — ranked 8208th in Croatia (DZS, 2021). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.