Gender: Masculine
Origin: Slavonic
Meaning: “dawn.”
Зоран
The name is a masculinized form of the Slavonic female name Zora, which is from the Old Slavonic, meaning, “dawn” and which also was the name of an ancient Slavic goddess, (see Zora for more details).
The name is mainly used in Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia and as of 2006, he was the 2nd most popular male name in the Republic of Macedonia.
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Czech/Slovak
Meaning: “young; love; dear.”
(mee-LAH-dah)
The name is believed to either be derived from the Old Slavonic, Mlada, meaning “youth” or from the Slavonic element mila meaning “love; dear.” In Slovakia, its designated name-day is December 29, in the Czech Republic, it is February 8th and in Slovenia, March 28th. A masculine form is Miladín.
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Croatian/Bulgarian/Serbian/Macedonian/Russian
Meaning: “snow.”
(snyeh-ZHAH-nah)
The name is derived from the Slavonic element sneg, meaning “snow.” Other sources contend that the later part is derived from the word žena meaning woman, however, there seems to be a masculine form that pre-dates the feminine form, Snežan, and in that case, it would be rather unlikely that the suffix is related to žena. Snow White is often transliterated as Snezhana in Bulgarian, Russian and other South Slavic languages. In 2005, it was the 5th most popular female name in Macedonia.
Other forms of the name include:
Southern Slavic masculine forms are: Snežan, Snježko and Snježan.
The designated name-day in Bulgaria is December 14, in other countries, it is August 5.
Gender: Feminine
Origin: Slovenian
Meaning: “Yew tree”
(TEE-sah)
The name comes directly from the Slovenian word for Yew Tree and is also the name of a river in Slovenia. In 2005, Tisa was the 91st most popular female name in Slovenia.