Goran

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Gender Masculine
Usage Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Macedonian, Bulgarian
Scripts Горан(Serbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian)
Pronounced Pron. /ˈɡǒ.ran/(Croatian, Serbian)

Meaning & History

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.