Dejan

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For a village in Romania, see Moravița.
Dejan
Pronunciation[dějan]
GenderMale
Origin
Word/nameSerb
Region of originBalkans
Other names
Variant formsDejaniš, Dejana (f.)

Dejan (Cyrillic: Дејан) 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.

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