Serbian Last Name Generator
Real Serbian surnames with every č, ć and đ
Browse 500 Serbian surnames in Latin script with full diacritics, from Jovanović, Petrović and Nikolić to Kujundžić, Šijački, Uzelac and the dynastic Nemanjić and Obrenović.
About Serbian last names
Most surnames common in Serbia and among Serbs end in -ić, a suffix that came to mean child of. Joined to a father's name with -ov or -ev it gives the patronymics that lead every list: Jovanović from Jovan, Petrović from Petar, Đorđević from Đorđe. Others grew from a trade or office, such as Kovačević (kovač, a smith), Popović (pop, a priest), Kujundžić (a goldsmith) and Terzić (a tailor), or from a nickname or a homeland, as in Ćosić, Crnogorac and Hercegovac.
Region shows in the ending. In Vojvodina many families carry names in -ov, -in, -ski and -ački, such as Popov, Savin, Bugarski and Šijački. Families with roots in Herzegovina, the Krajina and the Dinaric highlands often have short names with no -ić at all: Uzelac, Desnica, Tintor, Vukobrat. A small share of the list is history: Nemanjić for the medieval dynasty, Obrenović and Karađorđević for the two ruling houses of modern Serbia.
In much of Serbia surnames became fixed and hereditary only in the nineteenth century, and they have no feminine form: a brother and a sister are both Marković. The 500 here are written in Serbian Latin with full diacritics. Many are shared with neighbors across the former Yugoslavia, so a surname alone says little about where a person is from.
How to choose Serbian last names
- Keep the diacritics. Ć and č are separate letters, the -ić ending always takes ć, and đ is one letter, so Đorđević and Kovačević lose their sound as Djordjevic and Kovacevic.
- Do not change the surname for a woman. Serbian surnames have one form for everyone, so a character is Ana Petrović or Milica Stojiljković, never a form with -ova.
- Let the ending place the family. Popov, Dunđerski and Debeljački sound like Vojvodina, Ranđelović and Stojiljković like the south, and Uzelac, Bulajić or Trkulja like a family from the western highlands.
- Keep the ruling houses for historical settings. Nemanjić, Obrenović and Karađorđević carry a crown with them, while Ilić, Pavlović or Lazić fit any street in Belgrade.
- For an emigrant family, remember that the marks were usually dropped abroad, so Jovanović appears as Jovanovic or Jovanovich in older American records.
Frequently asked questions
What are the most common Serbian last names?
Jovanović is usually named as the most common surname in Serbia, with Petrović, Nikolić, Marković and Đorđević close behind. All five are in this list. Rankings differ a little by source and year, so treat the order as approximate.
Why do so many Serbian surnames end in -ić?
The suffix -ić is a diminutive that came to mean descendant of, so Jovanović is Jovan's descendant and Kovačević the smith's. The same ending is common among Croats, Bosniaks and Montenegrins, so it marks a language area, not one nation. Names without it, such as Crnogorac, Popov and Uzelac, are just as Serbian.
Do Serbian surnames have a feminine form?
No. Unlike Czech, Russian or Bulgarian surnames, an official Serbian surname is the same for men and women, so a father, mother, son and daughter are all Nikolić. That is why this list gives each surname once.
Are these real Serbian surnames?
The list is meant to hold only surnames that families in Serbia and in Serb communities actually carry, from Jovanović to rarer ones such as Višekruna and Praštalo, plus a handful of medieval dynasty names such as Nemanjić that belong to history. It was screened for duplicates, so search a name yourself before you rely on it for research. Spellings follow Serbian Latin; each letter, counting lj, nj and dž as one, has its own Cyrillic letter.
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All 500 Serbian last names
A: 15 names
- Aćimović
- Aksentijević
- Aleksić
- Anđelić
- Anđelković
- Andrejević
- Antić
- Antonić
- Antonijević
- Arambašić
- Arnaut
- Arnautović
- Arsenijević
- Atanacković
- Avramović
B: 42 names
- Babić
- Babin
- Babović
- Bačkonja
- Bajić
- Balaban
- Balšić
- Banjac
- Barjaktarević
- Basara
- Basta
- Bečejac
- Bećković
- Belić
- Bikicki
- Bilbija
- Bjelobaba
- Bjelogrlić
- Blagojević
- Blanuša
- Bogdanović
- Bogosavljević
- Bogunović
- Bojanić
- Borisavljević
- Borojević
- Borota
- Borovčanin
- Borović
- Bosanac
- Bošković
- Božinović
- Božović
- Branković
- Bratić
- Brkić
- Budimlija
- Budisavljević
- Bugarin
- Bugarski
- Bulajić
- Bursać
C: 21 names
- Čabarkapa
- Čemerikić
- Cerović
- Ćirić
- Ćirković
- Čobanović
- Ćopić
- Ćorović
- Ćosić
- Crnobrnja
- Crnogorac
- Crnojević
- Čubrilo
- Ćuk
- Ćulibrk
- Ćurčić
- Ćurčija
- Cvejić
- Cvetanović
- Cvetković
- Cvjetićanin
D: 36 names
- Dakić
- Đaković
- Damnjanović
- Danilović
- Davidović
- Debeljački
- Dedić
- Delibašić
- Denić
- Desnica
- Dimić
- Dimitrijević
- Dinić
- Dmitrović
- Dobrić
- Dobrosavljević
- Đokić
- Đorđević
- Drača
- Dragaš
- Dragić
- Dragin
- Dragojević
- Dragojlović
- Dragutinović
- Drakulić
- Drašković
- Drljača
- Drobnjak
- Drobnjaković
- Đukić
- Dunđerski
- Đurđev
- Đurić
- Đuričić
- Đurković
E: 4 names
- Ekmečić
- Erceg
- Erdeljan
- Erić
F: 1 name
- Filipović
G: 22 names
- Gaćeša
- Gajić
- Garašanin
- Gavranović
- Gazivoda
- Georgijević
- Glamočlija
- Glavaški
- Glavonjić
- Gligorić
- Gligorijević
- Glušac
- Golub
- Govedarica
- Grabovac
- Grahovac
- Grbić
- Grubač
- Grubor
- Grujić
- Gvozdenović
- Gvozdić
H: 3 names
- Hajduković
- Hercegovac
- Hrebeljanović
I: 4 names
- Ilić
- Isaković
- Ivanović
- Ivković
J: 16 names
- Jakovljević
- Jakšić
- Jančić
- Janjić
- Janković
- Jelenković
- Jelić
- Jelisavčić
- Jevremović
- Jevtić
- Jezdimirović
- Jocić
- Joksimović
- Jovanović
- Jović
- Jovičić
K: 38 names
- Kalaba
- Kalajdžić
- Kaluđerović
- Kapor
- Karađorđević
- Karanović
- Kecman
- Kesić
- Kirćanski
- Kitanović
- Kljajić
- Knežević
- Kojić
- Kokotović
- Kolar
- Kolarov
- Komnenić
- Končar
- Konjović
- Koprivica
- Korać
- Kosanović
- Kosovac
- Kostić
- Kovač
- Kovačević
- Kozomara
- Kraljević
- Krivokapić
- Krivokuća
- Krneta
- Krsmanović
- Krstić
- Kujundžić
- Kukolj
- Kuprešanin
- Kupusinac
- Kurjak
L: 16 names
- Latinović
- Lazarević
- Lazić
- Lekić
- Leskovac
- Ličina
- Lipovac
- Ljubibratić
- Ljubić
- Ljubičić
- Ljubišić
- Ljubojević
- Lončar
- Lubarda
- Lukić
- Luković
M: 62 names
- Macura
- Majstorović
- Maksimović
- Malbaša
- Malešević
- Maletić
- Mančić
- Mandić
- Manić
- Manojlović
- Marčeta
- Marić
- Maričić
- Marinković
- Marjanović
- Marković
- Martinović
- Matejić
- Matić
- Matijević
- Medaković
- Medenica
- Medić
- Mesarović
- Micić
- Mićić
- Mihajlović
- Mijatov
- Mijatović
- Mikić
- Miladinović
M, continued
- Milankov
- Milanović
- Milenković
- Milentijević
- Mileusnić
- Milić
- Milićević
- Milisavljević
- Milivojević
- Miljković
- Miljuš
- Miloradović
- Milosavljević
- Milošević
- Milovanović
- Milutinović
- Mirić
- Mirković
- Mišković
- Mitić
- Mitrović
- Mladenović
- Mlađenović
- Momčilović
- Moravac
- Mrđa
- Mrkalj
- Mrkonjić
- Mrnjavčević
- Mudrić
- Mutavdžić
N: 10 names
- Narančić
- Naumović
- Nedeljkov
- Nedeljković
- Nemanjić
- Nenadić
- Nestorović
- Nikolić
- Ninković
- Novaković
O: 6 names
- Obradović
- Obrenović
- Ognjenović
- Oklobdžija
- Opačić
- Otašević
P: 29 names
- Pajić
- Panić
- Pantelić
- Paštrović
- Patrnogić
- Pavićević
- Pavlović
- Pejić
- Pejović
- Perić
- Perović
- Pešić
- Petković
- Petronijević
- Petrović
- Pilipović
- Piper
- Piroćanac
- Polovina
- Popivoda
- Popov
- Popović
- Praštalo
- Preradović
- Pribićević
- Prica
- Protić
- Pudar
- Pupovac
R: 26 names
- Radaković
- Radenković
- Radić
- Radivojević
- Radojičić
- Radošević
- Radovanov
- Radovanović
- Radović
- Radunović
- Radusin
- Raičević
- Rajak
- Rajković
- Rakić
- Rakočević
- Rančić
- Ranđelović
- Ranisavljev
- Rašeta
- Ratković
- Repac
- Ristić
- Rodić
- Rokvić
- Ružić
S: 54 names
- Samardžić
- Šantić
- Šarac
- Šarenac
- Savić
- Savićević
- Savin
- Šećerov
- Šegrt
- Šekularac
- Šijački
- Simeunović
- Simić
- Simin
- Simović
- Sinđelić
- Škorić
- Slavujević
- Smiljanić
- Sokolović
- Šolaja
- Somborac
- Šoškić
- Spasić
- Spasojević
- Srbljanović
- Sremac
- Stamenković
- Stančić
- Stanić
- Stanimirović
- Stanisavljević
- Stanković
- Stanojević
- Stanojlović
- Starčević
- Stefanović
- Stevanović
- Stojadinović
- Stojanov
- Stojanović
- Stojiljković
- Stojkov
- Stojković
- Stojmenović
- Stojsavljević
- Stošić
- Štrbac
- Stupar
- Subotić
- Subotin
- Šušnjar
- Svilar
- Svirčević
T: 25 names
- Tanasijević
- Tasić
- Teodorović
- Tepavac
- Tepavčević
- Terzić
- Timotijević
- Tintor
- Tišma
- Todorović
- Tomašević
- Tomić
- Tomović
- Tošić
- Trajković
- Travar
- Travica
- Trbojević
- Trgovčević
- Tričković
- Trifunović
- Trkulja
- Trnavac
- Tucakov
- Tufegdžić
U: 4 names
- Ugrinović
- Urošević
- Uskoković
- Uzelac
V: 45 names
- Vasić
- Vasiljević
- Vasojević
- Vasović
- Veličković
- Velimirović
- Veljković
- Veselinović
- Vesić
- Vešović
- Vićentijević
- Vidaković
- Vidosavljević
- Višekruna
- Višnjić
- Vještica
- Vladisavljević
- Vlaisavljević
- Vlaškalić
- Vlastimirović
- Vodeničar
- Vojislavljević
- Vojnović
- Vojvodić
- Vračar
- Vranić
- Vranješ
- Vučetić
- Vučinić
- Vujaklija
- Vujošević
- Vukadinović
- Vukajlović
- Vukčević
- Vukelić
- Vukić
- Vukmanović
- Vukmirović
- Vukobrat
- Vukosavljević
- Vukov
- Vuković
- Vuksanović
- Vuletić
- Vulović