Dragana

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Girl · Old Slavic

Dragana

Say it: DRAH-gah-nah

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Meaning

From Slavic drag 'dear, precious'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Beloved

A very common Serbian name in the second half of the 20th century.

Its wave through time

No birth counts are recorded for this name in the records loaded here: it has been given to fewer than five babies a year, or not at all, since records began.

Through the ages

  1. Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
  2. The Modern Age1880 to today

Used by

SerbianCroatianBulgarian

The family of the name

Other spellings: Драгана

BulgarianDragana
MacedonianDragana

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Where this comes from

  • National birth statistics of European countries source

Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.

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.