Dejan
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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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- Given name.name
- Dejan
- Given name.gender
- Male
- Given name.region
- Balkans
- Given name.origin
- Serb
- Given name.variant forms
- Dejaniš, (f.)
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- Instance of
- male given name
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- language of work or name
- Macedonian
- native label
- Dejan
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- D250
- Cologne phonetics
- 26
- Caverphone
- TYN111
- Commons category
- Dejan (given name)
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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.
The name is first recorded in 1325 (1333) for a voevod of king Stefan Uroš.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dejan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.