Goran

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Gender Masculine
Usage Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Bulgarian (Rare)
Scripts Горан(Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced Pron. GO-ran(Croatian, Serbian)
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Meaning & History

Means "mountain man", derived from South Slavic gora meaning "mountain". It was popularized by the Croatian poet Ivan Goran Kovačić (1913-1943), who got his middle name because of the mountain town where he was born.

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Feminine FormsGoranka(Croatian) Goranka(Serbian) Gorica(Macedonian)
Same SpellingGöran, Gøran

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