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Dejan (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан; [dɛjan]) is a South Slavic male name derived from the Old Slavic word dejati (дѣятъ[citation needed]>дејати) meaning action; to act to do.[citation needed] It may also be related to the Latin deus meaning god.[citation needed] It is very common in Serbia and also common in the republics of Montenegro Bosnia and Herzegovina Macedonia Croatia Slovenia and Bulgaria.The given name Dejan and the surname Dejanović is unusually widespread in the Serbo-Croatian linguistical region and it is first mentioned in 1349 in Serbia.