Given name & surname
Cvetan
“flower, blossom”
Cvetan is used as a given name and a surname.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Cvetan is a romanization of Цветан. Цветан goes back to a word meaning “flower, blossom.”
Explained through its name family
Cvetan’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Cvetan is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Цветан.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Cvetan
- Cvetan DimovMacedonian & Yugoslav WWII partisan1910–1942
- Cvetan GrozdanovMacedonian art historian (1936-2018)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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If you love Cvetan, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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