Dejan

Dejan (Cyrillic Дејан , pronunciation [deːjan]) is a male given name for Serbs , Macedonians , Slovenes and Croats . The Bulgarian variant is Dijan.

Origin and meaning

It possibly goes back to the Slavic verbal stem "dej-" , which means do , do , work .

Dejan Dragaš († around 1365), Serbian voivode and despot
Dejan Bodiroga (* 1973), Serbian basketball player
Dejan Bućin (* 1985), German actor
Dejan Dukovski (* 1969), Macedonian playwright and screenwriter
Dejan Enew (* 1960), Bulgarian writer
Dejan Grabič (* 1980), Slovenian football player
Dejan Ilic (* 1957), German scientist and manager
Dejan Kelhar (* 1984), Slovenian football player
Dejan Košir (* 1973), Slovenian snowboarder
Dejan Kulusevski (* 2000), Swedish football player
Dejan Lazić (* 1977), Croatian pianist and composer
Dejan Lovren (* 1989), Croatian football player
Dijan Mintschew (* 1983), Bulgarian weightlifter
Dijan Petkow (* 1967), Bulgarian football player and coach
Dejan Perić (* 1970), Serbian handball player
Dejan Raičković (* 1967), Montenegrin football player and coach
Dejan Savićević (* 1966), Yugoslav or Montenegrin football player and coach
Dejan Šorak (* 1954), Yugoslav and Croatian film director and screenwriter
Dejan Sorgić (* 1989), Serbian football player
Dejan Stanković (soccer player, 1957) (* 1957), Austrian soccer player and coach
Dejan Stanković (soccer player, 1978) (* 1978), Serbian soccer player
Dejan Stefanović (* 1974), Serbian football player
Dejan Tomašević (* 1973), Serbian basketball player
Dejan Zavec (* 1976), Slovenian professional boxer
Dejan Zukić (* 2001), Serbian football player