Given name & surname
Dragan
“resembling the fire-breathing creature”
Dragan is a variant of Dragon. One American interpretation is “resembling the fire-breathing creature.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Dragan is a variant of Dragon. One American interpretation is “resembling the fire-breathing creature.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Dragan is a variant of Dragon. An origin associated with Dragon is American.
Explained through its name family
How it developed
Built from Serbo-Croatian drag (“dear”) + -an.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1961. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dragan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 275
- 275 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 12 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 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 12 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,708 as a first name in 2020; 1,010 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dragan’s family of names
In Serbo-Croatian usage, Dragan shares a linguistic root with the Irish form Caoimhín. Dragan has a related form in Dragon. In Macedonian usage, Dragan is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Драган.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dragan has relatives in 5 languages.
3 related names in 5 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Dragan
- Dragan StojkovićSerbian association football player and managerborn 1965
- Dragan ĐokanovićBosnian politician of Serbian originborn 1958
- Dragan DžajićSerbian footballerborn 1946
- Dragan MrđaSerbian footballerborn 1984
- Dragan ČovićBosnian Croat politicianborn 1956
- Dragan NikolićSerbian actor (1943–2016)
- Dragan BenderCroatian basketball player (born 1997)
- Dragan ĐilasSerbian politicianborn 1967
- Dragan Kićanovićbasketball playerborn 1953
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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