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Dejan

Boys' name

To do or deed, action

Dejan has been given to 330 babies in the U.S. since 1970. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2000, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Dejan, 2021

1 in 484,000

Dejan over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dejan: meaning, origin, and history

To do or deed, action

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dejan means

Dejan means “to do or deed, action”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dejan is used in Serbian, Croatian, Slovene and Macedonian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdɛ.jan/ for Dejan.

Origin, language, and formation

Dejan is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Dejan is pronounced /dějan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 317 boys were recorded with the name Dejan between 1970 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2000; its best national rank was #3,239 in 1977.

In the United States, 13 girls were recorded with the name Dejan between 1996 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1996; its best national rank was #10,854 in 1996.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Dejan?

Dejan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 250,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,678 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dejan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dejan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dejans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dejan was born before 1999 — so the typical Dejan is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
317
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Dejan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2000 (19)
Years since peak
25
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,239
1977

Spellings of Dejan

Dejan is not the most common spelling — Sean is, with 21.6% against Dejan's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Dejan is used

Across 1910–2025, Dejan was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 371,064 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Dejan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dejan around the world

Where Dejan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1965–2025
    #3,226
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–1997
    #549
    in 1997
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1964–2007
    #437
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Dejan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#3,239
1977
Peak year
2000
19 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
317
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,854
1996
Peak year
1996
7 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
13
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dejan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Dejan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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