Dejana
Dejan is a South Slavic masculine given name, derived from the Slavic verb dejati, meaning "to act, to do". The name and the derived surname Dejanović are common among South Slavs.
- Serbian
- Croatian
- Slovene
Meaning & Origin of Dejana
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Dejan is a South Slavic masculine given name, derived from the Slavic verb dejati, meaning "to act, to do". The name and the derived surname Dejanović are common among South Slavs.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Serbian
- Croatian
- Slovene
The Story of Dejana
Dejana first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1991, with 7 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1997: 16 births, good for #5,868 nationwide. About 56% of every Dejana on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Dejana last appeared in the published SSA data in 2009, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 172 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
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Notable people named Dejana
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- Dejan (fl. 1346-66), Serbian magnate
- Dejan Bodiroga (born 1973), Serbian basketball player
- Dejan Dabović (1944–2020), Yugoslav water polo player
- Dejan Damjanović (born 1981), Montenegrin footballer
- Dejan Dimitrovski (born 1979), Macedonian footballer
- Dejan Gluščević (born 1967), Serbian footballer and manager
- Dejan Iliev (born 1995), Macedonian footballer
- Dejan Janković (born 1986), Serbian footballer
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Names that sound like Dejana
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About the name Dejana
Dejana is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1991 and has accumulated 172 births in the dataset. Dejana's peak popularity came in 1997 when it ranked #5,868. Use the chart and map above to compare Dejana's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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