Dušan

Dušan (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан) is a Slavic given name primarily used in the area of Yugoslavia; and among Slovaks and Czechs.^[1] The name is derived from the Slavic noun duša "soul".^[2]

Dušan

Pronunciation	Czech: [ˈduʃan] Serbo-Croatian: [dǔʃan] Slovak: [ˈduʂan]
Gender	male
Language(s)	Slavic
Origin
Language(s)	Slavic
Word/name	duša "soul"
Derivation	duš- (root) + an (suffix)
Region of origin	Slavic
Other names
Pet form(s)	Dule (in Serbian)
Related names	Duško (in Serbian)

Occurrence

Emperor of Serbs and Greeks Stefan Dušan

Name	Count people (Rank)	State	Date
Dušan	14,972	Czechia	2016[3]
Dušan	40,191 (57th; 19th man's)	Slovakia	2000-10[4]
Dušan	7,660 (33rd)	Slovenia	2021-01-01[5]
Dušan	5,656	Croatia	2011[6]

In Serbia, it was the 29th most popular name for males, as of 2010.^[7]

People

• Stefan Uroš IV Dušan, Emperor of the Serbian Empire
• Dušan Bajević, Bosnian former footballer and current football manager
• Dušan Bařica, Czech ice hockey player
• Dušan Basta, 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 Keketi (born 1951), Slovak footballer
• Dušan Keketi (born 1975), Slovak politician
• Dušan Kalmančok (born 1945), Slovak astronomer
• Dušan Kaprálik (1948-2023), Slovak actor
• Dušan Kerkez, Bosnian former footballer and current football manager
• Dušan Kovačević, Serbian playwright
• Dušan Lajović, Serbian tennis player
• Dušan Mandić, Serbian water polo player, Olympic champion
• Dušan Matić, Serbian poet
• Dušan Makavejev, Serbian film director
• Dušan Mihajlović, Serbian politician
• Dušan Mihajlović, Serbian footballer
• Dušan Otašević, Serbian painter and sculptor
• Dušan Pašek, 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, Serbian footballer
• Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian literary historian, philosopher and resistance fighter
• Dušan Poloz (born 1965), Slovak handball coach
• Dušan Popović, several people
• Dušan Radović, Serbian journalist and writer
• Dušan Repovš, Slovenian mathematician
• Dušan Salfický, Czech ice hockey player
• Dušan Šestić, Bosnian musician, composer of the Bosnian national anthem
• Dušan Slobodník, Slovak literary theoretician, translator and politician
• Dušan Švantner, Slovak politician
• Dušan Tadić, Serbian footballer
• Dušan Třeštík, Czech historian
• Dušan Uhrin, Slovak footballer and football manager
• Dušan Velič (1966–2023), Slovak chemist and politician
• Dušan Vemić, Serbian tennis player
• Dušan Vlahović (born 2000), Serbian footballer
• Dušan Uhrin Jr, Slovak football manager and the Son of Dušan Uhrin

Catholic saints

• Saint Dušan (Spiridion), the bishop, 4th century^[8]

See also

• Cities:
  • Dušanovo (disambiguation)
  • Dushanbe

References

1. Dušan Forename, p. forebears.io, retrieved 2021-04-04
2. Miklosich, Franz (1860). Die Bildung der slavischen Personennamen (in German). Vienna: Aus der kaiserlich-königlichen Hoff- und Staatdruckerei. p. 61.
3. Malačka, Ondřej; Samek, Jan. "Jméno: 'Dušan', počet výskytů 14972 v celé ČR". kdejsme.cz. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
4. Krško, Jaromír (2001). "FREKVENCIA RODNÝCH MIEN NA SLOVENSKU". Slovenská Reč. 66 (2001, 1). Retrieved 2022-07-31.
5. "Male first names by FIRST NAME, MEASURES and YEAR. PxWeb". Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
6. "Popis stanovništva 2011". dzs.hr. Retrieved 2021-06-11.
7. "Število moških z imenom DUŠAN: 8.318 (ali 0,8 % vseh moških)" (in Slovenian). Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia.
8. "15. december" (in Slovak). nws.sk. Retrieved 2024-08-11.