Dejan

Dejan (Cyrillic: Дејан) is a South Slavic masculine given name, derived from the Old Slavic word dejati, meaning "action; to act, to do". It is possible that the name is a diminutive of dithematic Desimir or Desislav, with des meaning "to happen". Although it is considered old Slavic name, some claim name Dejan comes from old Latin word Deus or Dea which mean God or Godly. It is very common in Serbia and North Macedonia, and also common in Bulgaria, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Slovenia.

For the Romanian village, see Moraviţa.
Dejan
Pronunciation[dějan]
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameSlavic
Region of originBalkans
Other names
Variant form(s)Dejana (f.)
Related namesDesa, Desislav, Desimir

The given name Dejan and the surname Dejanović is unusually widespread in the Serbo-Croatian linguistical area, and it is first mentioned in the mid-14th century, in Serbia.[1] Dejan (fl. 1346–ca. 1366) was a Serbian magnate in the Serbian Empire. The form Dejaniš is also found in the 14th century.[1] According to medieval texts, Dejan was widespread in Serbian lands,[2] and it is frequent in Serbian epic poetry.[3][4] The name is among the most common in Serbia: It was the fifth most given name in the period of 1961–1970 (at 5,61%[5]); first in 1971–1980; ninth in 1981–1990.[6]

Notable people
gollark: I mean, yes, if you already trust everyone to act sensibly and without doing bad stuff, then privacy doesn't matter for those reasons.
gollark: Oh, and as an extension to the third thing, if you already have some sort of vast surveillance apparatus, even if you trust the government of *now*, a worse government could come along and use it later for... totalitarian things.
gollark: For example:- the average person probably does *some* sort of illegal/shameful/bad/whatever stuff, and if some organization has information on that it can use it against people it wants to discredit (basically, information leads to power, so information asymmetry leads to power asymmetry). This can happen if you decide to be an activist or something much later, even- having lots of data on you means you can be manipulated more easily (see, partly, targeted advertising, except that actually seems to mostly be poorly targeted)- having a government be more effective at detecting minor crimes (which reduced privacy could allow for) might *not* actually be a good thing, as some crimes (drug use, I guess?) are kind of stupid and at least somewhat tolerable because they *can't* be entirely enforced practically
gollark: No, it probably isn't your fault, it must have been dropped from my brain stack while I was writing the rest.
gollark: ... I forgot one of them, hold on while I try and reremember it.

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Notes
  1. Zbornik za filologiju i lingvistiku. 11. 1968. p. 171.
    ... већ само основе: Лично име ДЕЈАН и презиме Дејановић необично је распрострањено на подручју српскохрватског језика, а први пут је забележено 1349. године у Србији. У облику Дејаниш такође се појављује у XIV веку,102 а ...
  2. Dragoslav Srejović; Slavko Gavrilović; Sima M. Ćirković (1892). Istorija srpskog naroda: knj. Od najstarijih vremena do Maričke bitke (1371). Srpska književna zadruga. p. 636.
  3. Bulletin de l'Institut etnographique. 40. Naučno delo. 1991. p. 62.
  4. Српско учено друштво (1880). Гласник Српскога ученог друштва ... 48-49. p. 99.
  5. Prilozi proučavanju jezika. Katedra za južnoslovenske jezike Filozofskog fakulteta. 1979 [1976].
  6. "Најчешћа мушка имена према години рођења". Попис становништва, домаћинстава и станова 2011. године у Републици Србији: Најчешћа имена и презимена (PDF). Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia. 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-07-28.
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