Given name · also Slavic
Nenad
Nenad is a masculine given name from Slavic. It is used in English and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Nenad comes from Slavic, and ultimately from Slavic languages.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1969. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nenad through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 43
- 43 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1979
- 9 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 2001. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 1979. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 827 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.
Nenad’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Nenad is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Ненад.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Nenad
- Nenad ĐorđevićSerbian association football playerborn 1979
- Nenad MaslovarMontenegrin association football playerborn 1967
- Nenad ZimonjićSerbian tennis player and coach (born 1976)
- Nenad MilijašSerbian footballerborn 1983
- KnezMontenegrin singerborn 1967
- Nenad KrstićSerbian basketball player (born 1983)
- Nenad BjelicaCroatian footballerborn 1971
- Nenad TomovićSerbian footballerborn 1987
- Nenad KrstičićSerbian footballerborn 1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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