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Dragan

Boys' name

Precious

Dragan has been given to 275 babies in the U.S. since 1961. 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 2012, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Dragan, 2024

1 in 478,000

Dragan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Dragan: meaning, origin, and history

Precious

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Dragan means

Dragan means “precious”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Dragan is used in Serbian, Croatian, Slovene, Macedonian and Bulgarian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈdrǎ.ɡan/, /ˈdra.ɡan/ and /drɐ.ˈɡan/ for Dragan.

Origin, language, and formation

Dragan is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Dragan is pronounced /drǎːɡan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 275 boys were recorded with the name Dragan between 1961 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2012; its best national rank was #3,390 in 1974.

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 Dragan?

Dragan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Dragan 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Dragan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Dragans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Dragan was born before 2000 — so the typical Dragan is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
26.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
275
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 26.5% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Dragan 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2012 (12)
Years since peak
13
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,390
1974

Spellings of Dragan

Dragan is not the most common spelling — Brayan is, with 19.8% against Dragan's 0.33%.

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 Dragan is used

Across 1910–2025, Dragan was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 387,931 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. Dragan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Dragan around the world

Where Dragan 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
    2000–2002
    #3,225
    in 2002
  • France
    1965–2025
    #3,813
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–1988
    #616
    in 1988
  • Canada
    2009–2009
    #2,374
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1950–2013
    #499
    in 2013

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.

Dragan 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
#3,390
1974
Peak year
2012
12 that year
First recorded
1961
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
275
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Dragan

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

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Sibling names for Dragan

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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