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.

Dejan
Pronunciation[dějan]
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameSerb
Region of originBalkans
Other names
Variant form(s)Dejaniš, Dejana [sr] (f.)

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

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Notes

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