Dejan

Dejan

Dejan

South Slavic male name

For a village in Romania, see Moravița.

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