Croatian & Serbian Names

Croatian and Serbian naming traditions share many forms, alongside differences in language, script, and religious custom. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.

Save nameName & connection
History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1966.

93#1,746
Down 342 rank positions in five years
1998

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1880.

5#17,027
Down 6,026 rank positions in five years
1962

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1967.

132#1,388
Down 107 rank positions in five years
2023

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1883.

43#3,555
Down 124 rank positions in five years
1918

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1918.

36#3,243
Down 316 rank positions in five years
2005

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1889.

15#7,396
Up 1,970 rank positions in five years
1987

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1967.

21#4,710
Down 168 rank positions in five years
2005

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1918.

—Unranked
—
1965

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1981.

20#5,969
Up 168 rank positions in five years
2005

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1938.

—Unranked
—
1974

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1917.

9#8,270
Down 1,226 rank positions in five years
2007

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1963.

14#6,350
Down 1,536 rank positions in five years
2006

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1914.

9#8,286
Down 3,585 rank positions in five years
2001

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1949.

7#12,252
Up 3,515 rank positions in five years
1975

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

8#9,451
Down 3,260 rank positions in five years
2006

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

74#2,032
Up 1,149 rank positions in five years
2022

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1987.

10#9,500
Down 513 rank positions in five years
2003

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1960.

10#7,978
Down 2,390 rank positions in five years
2022

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1970.

16#5,618
Up 1,904 rank positions in five years
2002

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1996.

7#10,500
Up 1,289 rank positions in five years
2001

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1918.

—Unranked
—
1976

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1993.

—Unranked
—
1999

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1998.

7#12,757
Down 962 rank positions in five years
2001

Recorded in Serbo-Croatian; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1987.

—Unranked
—
2023

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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