# Nenad (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/nenad/  
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 | 43 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 43 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 8 | 3,503 |
| 1977 | 5 | 6,542 |
| 1978 | 5 | 6,481 |
| 1979 | 9 | 4,297 |
| 1980 | 5 | 6,962 |
| 1982 | 6 | 6,161 |
| 2001 | 5 | 11,789 |

## People named Nenad

- Nenad Bjelica, Croatian footballer
- Nenad Kljaić, Croatian handball player
- Nenad Gračan, Croatian football player/manager
- Nenad Pralija, Croatian footballer
- Nenad Žugaj, Croatian sport wrestler
- Nenad Veličković, Bosnian writer and playwright (born 1962)
- Nenad Petrović, Croatian chess composer
- Sulava, Nenad, Croatian chess player (1962–2019)
- Nenad Starovlah, Bosnian footballer (born 1955)
- Nenad Šalov, Croatian footballer

## 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.