Dušan
Mid-14th-century fresco of Stefan Dušan, in Lesnovo Monastery, North Macedonia | |
| Pronunciation | Czech: [ˈduʃan] Serbo-Croatian: [dǔʃan] Slovak: [ˈduʂan] |
|---|---|
| Gender | male |
| Language | Slavic |
| Origin | |
| Language | Slavic |
| Word/name | duša "soul" |
| Derivation | duš- (root) + an (suffix) |
| Region of origin | Slavic |
| Other names | |
| Pet forms | Dule, Duća (in Serbian) |
| Related names | Duško (Serbian), Duchoslav (Czech) |
Dušan (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан) is a masculine given name of South Slavic origin. Today it is primarily used in the Western South Slavic languages and in Czech and Slovak.[1] The name is derived from the Slavic noun duša ('spirit').[2]
Occurrence
| Name | Count people (Rank) | State | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dušan | 14,972 | Czech Republic | 2016[3] |
| Dušan | 40,191 (57th; 19th man's) |
Slovakia | 2000-10[4] |
| Dušan | 7,660 (33rd) | Slovenia | 2021-01-01[5] |
| Dušan | 3,796 | Croatia | 2021[6] |
In Serbia, it was the 29th most popular name for males, as of 2010.[7]
People
- Stefan Uroš IV Dušan (c. 1308–1355), Emperor of the Serbian Empire
- Dušan Bajević (born 1948), Bosnian former footballer and current football manager
- Dušan Bařica (born 1975), Czech ice hockey player
- Dušan Basta (born 1984), Serbian footballer
- Dušan Bavdek (born 1971), Slovenian composer
- Dušan Bogdanović (born 1955), Serbian-born American composer and classical guitarist
- Dusan Djuric (born 1984), Swedish international footballer of Serbian descent
- Dušan Domović Bulut (born 1985), Serbian 3x3 basketball player
- Dušan Džamonja (1928–2009), Croatian sculptor
- Dušan Fitzel (born 1963), Slovak footballer and football manager
- Dušan Galis (born 1949), Slovak footballer and football manager
- Dušan Hájek (born 1946), Slovak drummer and percussionist
- Dušan Keketi (footballer) (born 1951), Slovak footballer
- Dušan Keketi (born 1975), Slovak politician
- Dušan Kalmančok (born 1945), Slovak astronomer
- Dušan Kaprálik (1948–2023), Slovak actor
- Dušan Kerkez (born 1976), Bosnian former footballer and current football manager
- Dušan Kovačević (born 1948), Serbian playwright
- Dušan Lajović (born 1990), Serbian tennis player
- Dušan Makavejev (1932–2019), Serbian film director
- Dušan Mandić (born 1994), Serbian water polo player, Olympic champion
- Dušan Maravić (1939–2025), Serbian footballer
- Dušan Matić (1898–1980), Serbian poet
- Dušan Mihajlović (born 1948), Serbian politician
- Dušan Mihajlović (born 1985), Serbian footballer
- Dušan Mlađan (born 1986), Serbian-born Swiss basketball player
- Dušan Otašević (born 1940), Serbian painter and sculptor
- Dušan Pašek (1960–1998), Slovak ice hockey player
- Dušan Petković (footballer born 1974), Serbian former footballer
- Dušan Petković (footballer born 1903) (1903–1979), Serbian and Yugoslav football forward
- Dušan Petronijević (born 1983), Serbian footballer
- Dušan Pirjevec (1921–1977), Slovenian literary historian, philosopher and resistance fighter
- Dušan Poloz (born 1965), Slovak handball coach
- Dušan Popović, several people
- Dušan Radović (1922–1984), Serbian journalist and writer
- Dušan Repovš (born 1954), Slovenian mathematician
- Dušan Salfický (born 1972), Czech ice hockey player
- Dušan Šestić (born 1946), Bosnian musician, composer of the Bosnian national anthem
- Dušan Slobodník (1927–2001), Slovak literary theoretician, translator and politician
- Dušan Švantner (born 1946), Slovak politician
- Dušan Tadić (born 1988), Serbian footballer
- Dušan Třeštík (1933–2007), Czech historian
- Dušan Uhrin (born 1943), Slovak footballer and football manager
- Dušan Velič (1966–2023), Slovak chemist and politician
- Dušan Vemić (born 1976), Serbian tennis player
- Dušan Vlahović (born 2000), Serbian footballer
- Dušan Uhrin Jr (born 1967), Slovak football manager and the son of Dušan Uhrin
- Spyridon of Tremithus (c. 270–348), known in Slovak as Dušan, Greek Christian bishop of Tremithus and saint
See also
- All pages with titles containing Dusan
- Dušanovo (disambiguation)
References
- ^ Dušan Forename, p. forebears.io, retrieved 2021-04-04
- ^ Miklosich, Franz (1860). Die Bildung der slavischen Personennamen (in German). Vienna: Aus der kaiserlich-königlichen Hoff- und Staatdruckerei. p. 61.
- ^ Malačka, Ondřej; Samek, Jan. "Jméno: 'Dušan', počet výskytů 14972 v celé ČR". kdejsme.cz. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ^ Krško, Jaromír (2001). "FREKVENCIA RODNÝCH MIEN NA SLOVENSKU". Slovenská Reč. 66 (2001, 1). Retrieved 2022-07-31.
- ^ "Male first names by FIRST NAME, MEASURES and YEAR. PxWeb". Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
- ^ "Popis stanovništva, kućanstava i stanova u Republici Hrvatskoj 2021. godine". web.dzs.hr. Retrieved 2025-12-02.
- ^ "Število moških z imenom DUŠAN: 8.318 (ali 0,8 % vseh moških)" (in Slovenian). Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia.