Dejan

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Dejan
Pronunciation [dějan]
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.

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

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Notes

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

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