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Slavic name lexeme
June 2026
-drag (-драг) and -drog is a common Slavic given name lexeme, drag meaning "dear, beloved", in single-lexemed and dithematic names. For any of these given names, "Draža" may be a diminutive.
Other names with the stem Draž- include Draž, Dražan, Dražen.
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Single-lexeme names
Serbo-Croatian Dragan (m.); Dragana (f.) (with past participle suffix -an)
Serbo-Croatian Dragić (m.) (with diminutive suffix -ić)
Serbo-Croatian Dragica (f.) (with suffix -ica)
Serbo-Croatian Dragoje (m.) (with suffix -oje)
Serbo-Croatian Dragaš (m.) (with suffix -aš)
Serbo-Croatian Dragoš (m.) (with suffix -oš)
Serbo-Croatian Dragiša (m.) (with suffix -iša)
Serbo-Croatian Dragutin (m.) (with suffix -utin)
Dithematic names
Only masculine names are listed. -a is simply added to produce feminine forms.
Prefixed
Serbo-Croatian Dragimir, Dragomir (from mir, "peace, world")
Serbo-Croatian Dragislav, Dragoslav (m.); Dragoslava (f.) (from slava, "glory, fame")
Serbo-Croatian Dragivoj, Dragivoje (from voj, "war")
Serbo-Croatian Dragoljub (from ljub, "love, to like")
Serbo-Croatian Dragorad (from rad, "happy, eager, to care")
Serbo-Croatian Dragosav (from sav, "all, every")
Suffixed
Serbo-Croatian Ljubodrag (from ljub, "love, to like")
Serbo-Croatian Milidrag, Milodrag (from milo, "love, to like")
Serbo-Croatian Miodrag (from mio, "tender, cute")
Serbo-Croatian Predrag (from pre, "very, much")
Serbo-Croatian Svedrag (from sve, "all")
Serbo-Croatian Vojdrag, Vojidrag (from voj, "war")
Serbo-Croatian Vukdrag, Vukodrag (from vuk, "wolf")
Serbo-Croatian Živodrag (from živo, "living")
See also
Slavic dithematic names
References
Mate Šimundić Rječnik osobnih imena https://books.google.com/books?id=9wAdAAAAYAAJ 1988 Nakladni zavod Matice hrvatske
Milica Grković Rečnik ličnih imena kod Srba https://books.google.com/books?id=1D9CAQAAIAAJ 1977 Vuk Karadžić
Radojica Jovičević Lična imena u staroslovenskom ǰeziku https://books.google.com/books?id=Fc0cAAAAMAAJ 1985 Filološki fakultet Beogradskog Univerziteta
Katarina Stojanović Srpska imena: narodna i hrišćanska https://books.google.com/books?id=oIDhGAAACAAJ 2007 Gramatik 978-86-84421-51-9
Category:Slavic given names