Given name · Bulgarian · rsk
Дамян
Дамян (Damjan) is a masculine given name from Serbo-Croatian, ultimately from Ancient Greek. It is used in Pannonian Rusyn.
Bulgarian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Damian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Дамян comes from Serbo-Croatian, and ultimately from Ancient Greek.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Дамян developed from Δαμιανός.
Дамян’s family of names
In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Дамян developed from the Ancient Greek form Δαμιανός. In Bulgarian usage, Дамян has a conventional equivalent in the English form Damian. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Дамян can be written in the Roman alphabet as DAMJAN.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Дамян
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