Given name & surname
Damjan
Damjan is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek. It is used in Icelandic and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2024. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Damjan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 5
- 5 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2024
- 5 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Damjan’s family of names
In Icelandic usage, Damjan has a conventional equivalent in the English form Damian. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Damjan was borrowed from the Ancient Greek form Δαμιανός. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Damjan is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Дамян.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Damjan has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
Ancient Greekwhere Damjan comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Damjan
- Damjan FrasSlovene ski jumperborn 1973
- Damjan RudežCroatian basketball player (born 1986)
- Damjan ShishkovskiMacedonian association football playerborn 1995
- Dame GruevBulgarian revolutionary from Macedonia1871–1906
- Damjan BoharSlovenian footballerborn 1991
- Damjan StojanovskiMacedonian basketball player (born 1987)
- Damjan ĐokovićAssociation footballer (1990-)
- Damjan TrifkovićSlovenian footballerborn 1987
- Damjan DervaričSlovenian ice hockey playerborn 1982
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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