# Dragan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/dragan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 275 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 275 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 8 | 8,500 |
| 2006 | 10 | 7,575 |
| 2007 | 10 | 7,746 |
| 2008 | 8 | 9,214 |
| 2009 | 6 | 11,385 |
| 2010 | 8 | 9,011 |
| 2011 | 5 | 12,800 |
| 2012 | 12 | 6,724 |
| 2013 | 6 | 11,108 |
| 2014 | 5 | 12,577 |
| 2015 | 5 | 12,573 |
| 2019 | 9 | 8,383 |
| 2020 | 8 | 8,951 |
| 2023 | 5 | 12,721 |
| 2024 | 7 | 10,173 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,036 |
| 2002 | 3 | 3,225 |

## People named Dragan

- Dragan Đokanović, Bosnian politician of Serbian origin
- Dragan Čović, Bosnian Croat politician
- Dragan Bender, Croatian basketball player (born 1997)
- Dragan Kićanović, basketball player
- Dragan Skočić, Croatian professional football player and manager
- Dragan Čavić, Bosnian-Herzegovinian politician
- Dragan Bjelogrlić, actor, film director
- Dragan Blatnjak, Bosnian footballer (born 1981)
- Dragan Primorac, Croatian politician
- Dragan Paljić, German footballer
- Dragan Jakovljević, Bosnian and Yugoslav footballer
- Dragan Kovačić, basketball player (1939–1999)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.