Predrag

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Predrag has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1972. 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 1972, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Predrag, 1972

1 in 629,000

Predrag over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Predrag: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Predrag means

Predrag is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Predrag is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Predrag is pronounced /prêdraːɡ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Predrag between 1972 and 1972. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1972; its best national rank was #5,546 in 1972.

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 Predrag?

Predrag had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1972, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1972: 1 in 629,000; 5 of 3,142,796 births
Among boys only: 1 in 324,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 1972: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 435,685 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Predrag 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 1972 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 435,685 children born in 1972 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Predrag. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Predrags were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Predrag was born before 1972 — so the typical Predrag is around 53 today.

Median birth year: 1972; About 53 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 5; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Predrag 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: —; 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: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1972 (5)
Years since peak: 53; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #5,546; 1972

Predrag around the world

Where Predrag 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.

France
1968–1985
#2,095
in 1985
South Australia
1969–1974
#455
in 1974

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Predrag 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: —
Best rank ever: #5,546; 1972
Peak year: 1972; 5 that year
First recorded: 1972
Last recorded: 1972
All-time count: 5
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Predrag

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

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Sibling names for Predrag

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

For a sister

Nicola Latonia Jenni Nicki Sharla Niki Trena Charisse

For a brother

Shon Shelton Darrick Judd Douglass Alfonzo Demond Scottie

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