Given name
Dusan
“God is my judge”
Dusan is used as a given name. One Slavic interpretation is “God is my judge.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Slavic interpretation is “God is my judge.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Slavic.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1921. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dusan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 149
- 149 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1974
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −27%
- Easing
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 10 in 1974. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,096 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dusan’s family of names
Dusan has a related form in Dusen. Dusan has a related form in Dusin. Dusan has a related form in Duson.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Dusan
- Dušan MitoševićSerbian football manager (1949-2018)
- Dušan BocevskiMacedonian basketball player (born 1973)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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