Goran

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Given Name GORAN

GENDER: Masculine
USAGE: Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Bulgarian (Rare)
OTHER SCRIPTS: Горан (Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian)

Meaning & History

Means "mountain man", derived from South Slavic gora "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.

Related Names

FEMININE FORMS: Goranka (Croatian), Goranka (Serbian), Gorica (Macedonian)
SAME SPELLING: Göran, Gøran

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Entry updated February 12, 2018