Dejan

South Slavic male name

For a village in Romania, see Moravița.

DejanPronunciation| [dějan]

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Gender| Male
Origin
Word/name| Serb
Region of origin| Balkans
Other names
Variant form(s)| Dejaniš, Dejana [sr] (f.)

Dejan (Cyrillic: Дејан) is a South Slavic masculine given name, derived from the Slavic verb dejati, meaning "to act, to do".[1] The name and the derived surname Dejanović are common among South Slavs.

The name is first recorded in 1325 (1333) for a voevod of king Stefan Uroš.[2]

## Notable people

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* Dejan (fl. 1346-66), Serbian magnate
* Dejan Bodiroga (born 1973), Serbian basketball player
* Dejan Dabović (1944–2020), Yugoslav water polo player
* Dejan Damjanović (born 1981), Montenegrin footballer
* Dejan Dimitrovski (born 1979), Macedonian footballer
* Dejan Gluščević (born 1967), Serbian footballer and manager
* Dejan Iliev (born 1995), Macedonian footballer
* Dejan Janković (born 1986), Serbian footballer
* Dejan Judež (born 1990), Slovenian ski jumper
* Dejan Kelhar (born 1984), Slovenian footballer
* Dejan Kulusevski (born 2000), Swedish footballer of Macedonian descent
* Dejan Lovren (born 1989), Croatian footballer
* Dejan Medaković (1922–2008), Serbian art historian, writer and academician
* Dejan Meleg (born 1994), Serbian footballer
* Dejan Milojević (1977–2024), Serbian basketball player and coach
* Dejan Petković (born 1972), Serbian football player
* Dejan Petković (born 1958), Serbian singer
* Dejan Savić (born 1975), Serbian water polo player and coach
* Dejan Savićević (born 1966), Montenegrin footballer
* Dejan Stanković (born 1978), Serbian footballer and manager
* Dejan Stefanović (born 1974), Serbian footballer
* Dejan Stojanović (born 1959), Serbian poet, writer, essayist, philosopher, businessman and journalist
* Dejan Tomašević (born 1973), Serbian basketball player
* Dejan Udovičić (born 1970), Serbian water polo coach
* Dejan Đedović (born 1973), Serbian futsal coach

## See also

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* All pages with titles containing Dejan
* Dejana [sr], feminine given name

## Notes

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1. ^ Franz Miklosich (1860), Die Bildung der slavischen Personennamen, p. 62
2. ^ Franz Miklosich (1858), Monumenta Serbica, p. 104