Given name
Dušan
“soul”
Dušan is a masculine given name. It is used in Czech, Old Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, and 1 other language.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Russian.
How it developed
Built from Serbo-Croatian duša (“soul”) + -an.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Dušan’s family of names
Dušan has an affectionate form in DuS(an)ek. Dušan has a feminine form in DuSana. Dušan has a conventional naming counterpart in Spiridon.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Dušan has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.
3 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 4
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 4
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Dušan
- Dušan TadićSerbian association football player (born 1988)
- Dušan PetkovićSerbian association football playerborn 1974
- Dušan BajevićBosnian footballer and managerborn 1948
- Dušan MakavejevSerbian film director (1932-2019)
- Dušan KuciakSlovak footballerborn 1985
- Dušan BastaSerbian footballerborn 1984
- Dušan Ivkovićbasketball coach (1943-2021)
- Dušan SimovićFirst Prime Minister of Yugoslavia in exile (1882-1962)
- Dušan ŠventoSlovak footballerborn 1985
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