Serbian Name Generator

Serbian names are built from a given name plus a family name, and the family name nearly always ends in -ić (pronounced "itch"), a diminutive that once meant "son of". The most common are Jovanović, Petrović, Nikolić, Marković, Đorđević, Stojanović, Ilić, Stanković, Pavlović, and Milošević. Many are patronymics frozen in the 19th century, so Petrović is "Petar's", Đorđević is "Đorđe's", and Lazarević is "Lazar's". Women keep the same surname form as men: Milica Jovanović and Marko Jovanović are spelled identically.

First names fall into three groups. Orthodox saints' names are everywhere: Nikola, Jovan, Stefan, Petar, Marija, Jelena, Ana, Katarina. Old Slavic names with meaningful roots are the most distinctly Serbian: Miloš (dear), Dragan and Dragana (precious), Vuk (wolf), Dušan (soul), Nemanja, Milica, Vesna, Snežana, Radmila. The current birth charts favour short names such as Luka, Lazar, Vuk, Mina, Dunja, Sofija, and Teodora, while Ljubomir, Zorica, and Slobodan mark an older generation. Serbian is written in both Cyrillic and Latin; this list uses the Latin form with č, ć, š, ž, and đ kept.

For fantasy or historical writing, the final sections cover the medieval Nemanjić and Lazarević rulers, Kosovo-cycle epic heroes like Miloš Obilić and Banović Strahinja, noble houses, and notable Serbs from Tesla to Andrić.