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Dragan
Say it: DRAH-gahn
Meaning
From Slavic drag 'dear, precious'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Among the commonest Serbian names of the mid-20th century.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 263 babies given this name since 1961
- At its height in 1974, about 1 in 157,300 boys
- 8 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Драган
| Bulgarian | Dragan |
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Famous bearers
- Dragan Stojković, Serbian footballer
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Where this comes from
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.