Dušan
A Slavic name built on the root for soul and spirit. Only about 125 men in Poland carry it, and no boys have been given it in over two decades, so most Poles will never meet one.
Dušan Pronunciation
Dušan is pronounced DOO-šahn (/ˈdušan/).
What Dušan means
Where Dušan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Dušan grows from the Slavic word duša, meaning soul. Close beside it stands duch, spirit. In Polish these arrive as dusza and duch, the same root a Polish reader already knows.
The most famous Dušan ruled far from Poland. Stefan Dušan was crowned emperor of the Serbs in 1346, and his legal code, the Dušanov zakonik, shaped medieval law for generations. A short name, a large reign.
In a Polish class register the name sits among the Bartoszes and Kacpers, foreign by a single letter. The háček over the s marks it as South Slavic, Serbian or Slovak more than Polish. Read it and you meet the soul at once, duša plain in the middle.
How many people are named Dušan
1 in 170770 men in Poland is named Dušan. 125 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2991 among male names.
Dušan as a middle name
Dušan is a first name for 125 men in Poland and a middle name for another 13, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2608th, between Denys (13) and Dzierżysław (13).
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#2606 Davyd13
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#2607 Denys13
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#2608 Dušan13
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#2609 Dzierżysław13
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#2610 Edem13