Dragan

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Origin and Meaning

Slavic extended form of Draga [1]

Related Names

See Draga

Further Information

Dragan is a name used among immigrants from Slavic countries, but is very rarely used in the Nordic countries by people without an immigration background

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 18 people were named Dragan (percentage of first or only given name: 72 %) [3]
  • Dragan is an IKEA product name (bathroom set). It is not based on the given name but on the Swedish vocabulary word draga = 'to pull' [4]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[5]
1240 1352 0 0 1240 1352
Denmark Denmark[6]
162
n.a.
0
n.a.
162
n.a.
Finland Finland[7]
n.a.
126 0 0
n.a.
126
Iceland Iceland[8]
20 21
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[9]
205
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
205
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[10]
0 0
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Dragan.


References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  2. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  4. IKEA 2016, http://www.ikea.com/
  5. Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  6. Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  7. Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  8. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  9. Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  10. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/