Dragan

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Dragan: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Dragan: Recorded since 1955, with a gap of 11 years, it reached #370 in 1975, and it was last ranked in 2002.

2registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
48years from first to last
#370highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Dragan's record

Absent from every published list for 11 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 2000–2002

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
2000	#3036
2002	#3225

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 24 of the 34 years from 1955 to 1988.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1955–2002 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1955
First recorded at #414 among boys in Norway in 1955 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1955–1988
Highest recorded position: #370 among boys in Norway, in 1975 (recorded 1955–1988).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2002
Most recently recorded at #3225 among boys in England and Wales, in 2002.
England and Wales · Boys

Dragan appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1955, and has registered 160 births with the name.

Dragan across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Dragan's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#414 (1955)	#370 (1975)	#624 (1988)	24 of 34	160 (1955–1988)	11 (1975)
England and Wales · Boys	#3036 (2000)	#3036 (2000)	#3225 (2002)	2 of 3	6 (2000–2002)	3 (2000)

Dragan by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Dragan in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	10	2 of 10	5
1960s	37	6 of 10	6
1970sbusiest	66	9 of 10	7
1980s	47	7 of 10	7

Across Norway · Boys, the 1970s were its busiest decade — the 9 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Dragan appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1955 to 2002. Highest recorded position: #370 in Norway in 1975.

Dragan's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#624	4	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#612	4	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#437	9	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#409	10	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#490	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#585	5	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#459	8	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#442	8	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#413	9	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#443	8	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#370	11	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#456	8	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#582	4	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#578	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#439	8	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#489	6	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#405	8	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#417	7	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#416	7	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#419	6	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#444	5	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#473	4	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#375	6	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#414	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1955 and 2002, ranked in 26 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #370, first reached in 1975.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in Norway in 1975.

Its record falls into 10 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 11 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2000, and 45 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Dovydas · #311, 19y
Dragos · #699, 15y
Drake · #682, 22y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Gift · #369, 23y
Lui · #369, 25y
Nathen · #369, 21y
Bea · #372, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Joao · #370, 54y
Malika · #370, 44y
Mehdi · #368, 56y
Abbas · #365, 55y

Dragan was ranked #370 in Norway · Boys in 1975. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Dragan and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Dragan without appearing here.

Dragan moved ahead of

Ronald Compare
In 1986 they stood at #409 and #396 in Norway · Boys; by 1987 that had become #612 and #639.

Moved ahead of Dragan

Isak Compare
In 1986 they stood at #437 and #502 in Norway · Boys; by 1987 that had become #612 and #362.
Scott Compare
In 1987 they stood at #612 and #641 in Norway · Boys; by 1988 that had become #624 and #387.
Sondre Compare
In 1970 they stood at #489 and #510 in Norway · Boys; by 1971 that had become #439 and #220.
Nicholas Compare
In 1980 they stood at #459 and #591 in Norway · Boys; by 1981 that had become #585 and #382.

Moved the opposite way to Dragan

Adam Compare
Between 1955 and 1988 in Norway · Boys, Dragan went from #414 to #624 while Adam went from #409 to #153.
Anders Compare
Between 1955 and 1988 in Norway · Boys, Dragan went from #414 to #624 while Anders went from #69 to #6.
Andreas Compare
Between 1955 and 1988 in Norway · Boys, Dragan went from #414 to #624 while Andreas went from #123 to #2.
Christian Compare
Between 1955 and 1988 in Norway · Boys, Dragan went from #414 to #624 while Christian went from #143 to #16.

Moved the same way as Dragan

Alfred Compare
Between 1955 and 1988 in Norway · Boys, Dragan went from #414 to #624 and Alfred from #217 to #572.
Arild Compare
Between 1955 and 1988 in Norway · Boys, Dragan went from #414 to #624 and Arild from #27 to #156.
Arne Compare
Between 1955 and 1988 in Norway · Boys, Dragan went from #414 to #624 and Arne from #9 to #89.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1955 and 1988 in Norway · Boys, Dragan went from #414 to #624 and Bjørn from #3 to #27.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1955 to 2002. Highest recorded position: #370 in Norway in 1975. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Dragan

Dragan at a glance

What stands out in Dragan's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Dragan across 2 official records

Dragan by decade in Norway · Boys

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What stands out in Dragan's record

Dragan across 2 official records

Dragan by decade in Norway · Boys

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