Damir is a common male given name in
South Slavic languages. It also occasionally appears in
Central Asia
Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a subregion, region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes t ...
and Turkic regions of
Russia
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It is of
Slavic origin, with ''da'' meaning "give"/"take", and ''mir'', meaning "peace".
It can also be a variation of a Turkish name "Demir", which means "iron".
In
Tatar name A Tatar personal name, being strongly influenced by Russian tradition, consists of two main elements: isem (given name) and familia ( family name) and also patronymic. Given names were traditional for Volga Bulgars for centuries, while family names ...
s, DAMIR is also an acronym for "Да здравствует мировая революция", meaning "Long live the world revolution".
In
Croatia
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, the name Damir was among the most common masculine given names in the decades between 1960 and 1979.
Notable people with the name include:
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Damir Bajs
Damir Bajs (born 7 October 1964 in Pakrac, Yugoslavia) is Croatian politician and former Croatia
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, Croatian politician
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Damir Bičanić
Damir Bičanić (born 29 July 1985) is a Croatian handball player, playing for RK Zagreb and the Croatian national team.
He competed for the Croatian national team at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Honours
;RK Zagreb
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, Croatian handball player
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Damir Bjelopoljak, Bosnian volleyball player
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Damir Botonjič, Slovenian football player
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Damir Burić (disambiguation), several people
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Damir Čakar, Montenegrin football player
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Damir Čeković, Serbian football player
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Damir Čerkić, Bosnian football player
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Damir Desnica
Damir Desnica (born 20 December 1956) is a Croatian retired footballer who played as a forward.
Club career
Born in Obrovac, Croatia, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Desnica spent much of his career with HNK Rijeka, appearing in near ...
, Croatian football player
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Damir Dokić, father of Serbian Australian tennis player Jelena Dokić
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Damir Doma
Damir Doma is a luxury clothing brand and Croatian fashion designer based in Milano.
Biography
Early life
Damir Doma is a fashion designer, founder and creative director of the Damir Doma brand. Doma studied fashion in Munich and Berlin. He gra ...
, German fashion designer of Croatian descent
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Damir Drinić, Serbian football player
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Damir Dugonjič
Damir Dugonjič (born 21 February 1988) is a Slovenian swimmer who competed for his native country at the 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. He competed in 100 metre breaststroke in all three Games, where he finished 16th, 18th and 21st respe ...
, Slovenian swimmer
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Damir Duvelek, Swedish hitman of Bosnian descent
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Damir Džidić, Croatian football player of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent
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Damir Džombić, Bosnian football player
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Damir Džumhur
Damir Džumhur ( ; born 20 May 1992) is a professional tennis player from Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is currently Bosnia and Herzegovina's No. 1 player. His career-best singles ranking of World No. 23 achieved on 2 July 2018, makes him the highes ...
, Bosnian tennis player
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Damir Ervin
Damir is a common male given name in South Slavic languages. It also occasionally appears in Central Asia and Turkic regions of Russia.
It is of Slavic names, Slavic origin, with ''da'' meaning "give"/"take", and ''mir'', meaning "peace".
It can ...
, American cartoonist, artist, animator
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Damir Fejzić, Serbian taekwondo practitioner
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Damir Glavan, Croatian water polo player
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Damir Hadžić (footballer, born 1978), Bosnian-Herzegovinian footballer
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Damir Hadžić (footballer, born 1984), Slovenian footballer
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Damir Ibrić, Bosnian football player
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Damir Jurković, Croatian football player
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Damir Kahriman, Serbian footballer of Romani descent
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Damir Kajin, Croatian politician
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Damir Kaletović, Bosnian journalist
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Damir Kedžo
Damir Kedžo (born 24 May 1987) is a Croatian pop singer. While he started his career in 2003 by participating in '' Story Supernova Music Talents'', he became even more famous in Croatia after winning the third season of '' Tvoje lice zvuči poz ...
, Croatian singer
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Damir Keretić, German tennis player of Croatian descent
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Damir Kreilach
Damir Kreilach (; born 16 April 1989) is a Croatian football midfielder who currently plays for and captains Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer.
Career
Kreilach began his professional career with Rijeka in the Croatian first division, making ...
, Croatian football player
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Damir Krupalija, Bosnian basketball player
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Damir Krznar
Damir Krznar (born 10 July 1972) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of the Slovenian PrvaLiga side Maribor.
Playing career Club
Krznar spent his career playing for Varteks, Dinamo Zagreb ...
, Croatian football player
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Damir Kukuruzović, Croatian jazz guitarist
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Damir Lesjak
Damir Lesjak (born 31 March 1967) is a former Croatian footballer who played for Dinamo Zagreb, Israeli side Hapoel Haifa and Belgian club Mouscron.
Club career
Born in Čakovec, Lesjak joined Dinamo Zagreb's academy as a promising young playe ...
, Croatian football player
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Damir Maričić, Croatian football player
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Damir Markota
Damir Markota (born December 26, 1985 as Damir Omerhodžić) is a Croatian professional basketball player currently playing for Dinamo in the Croatian League. Standing at , he plays at the power forward position.
Professional career
Markota, b ...
, Bosnian basketball player
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Damir Martin
Damir Martin (born 14 July 1988) is a Croatian rower. He won silver in the men's single scull at the 2016 Olympics losing to Mahé Drysdale in a photo finish and beating the multiple time world champion Ondřej Synek. He also won silver at the ...
, Croatian rower
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Damir Matovinović
Damir Matovinović (born April 6, 1940) is a Croatian retired football referee. He is mostly known for supervising one match (between Brazil and New Zealand) at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain
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, Croatian football referee
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Damir Mehić
Damir Mehić (born 18 April 1987) is a Bosnian-born Swedish footballer who plays as a goalkeeper
In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated ...
, Swedish footballer of Bosnian descent
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Damir Memišević, Bosnian football player
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Damir Mikec
Damir Mikec ( sr-Cyrl, Дамир Микец; born 31 March 1984) is a Serbian sport shooter.
Biography
Mikec represented Serbia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. He earned his qualification by finishing 6th at ...
, Serbian sport shooter of Croatian descent
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Damir Milinović
Damir Milinović (born 15 October 1972) is a Croatian professional football manager and former player. He was named manager of Dubrava in June 2022.
Club career
Born in Rijeka, Milinović spent most of his career in his local club, Rijeka, b ...
, Croatian football player and manager
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Damir Mirvić, Bosnian football player
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Damir Mršić, Bosnian basketball player
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Damir Mulaomerović
Damir Mulaomerović (born 19 September 1974) is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former player who is currently the head coach for Cedevita Junior of the Croatian League.
Professional career
Mulaomerović started his career with S ...
, Croatian basketball player of Bosnian descent
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Damir Nikšić, Bosnian conceptual artist
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Damir Pekič
Damir Pekič (born 15 January 1979) is a former Slovenian football player who played as a forward
Club career
Pekič started his senior career in Maribor. Before he was given a real chance in the club he was sent to Celje on loan for a seas ...
, Slovenian football player
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Damir Pertič, Slovenian futsal player
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Damir Petravić, Croatian football player and manager
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Damir Polančec, Croatian politician
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Damir Puškar, Slovenian futsal player
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Damir Rančić, Croatian basketball player
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Damir Rastić
Damir Rastić ( sr-Cyrl, Дамир Растић, ; born July 23, 1988) is Serbian biathlete.
He represents Serbia at the Biathlon World Championships, Biathlon World Cup
The Biathlon World Cup is a top-level biathlon season-long competition ...
, Serbian biathlete
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Damir Rašić
Damir Rašić (born 5 October 1988 in Split) is a Croatian football player who plays for HNK Zmaj Makarska
HRNK Zmaj is a professional Croatian football club based in the town of Makarska.
History
HRNK Zmaj was founded in 1921. The first c ...
, Croatian football player
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Damir Rilje, Croatian politician
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Damir Sadikov, Russian football player
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Damir Salimov
Damir Salimov (russian: Дамир Салимов; 19 July 1937 – 28 March 2019) was an Uzbek film director who was credited with introducing animation to Uzbekistan
Uzbekistan (, ; uz, Ozbekiston, italic=yes / , ; russian: Узбекис ...
, Uzbek film director
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Damir Shadaev, Russian politician
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Damir Siraciev, Tatar theatre director and actor
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Damir Skomina
Damir Skomina (born 5 August 1976) is a Slovenian former UEFA Elite category football referee.
Refereeing career
Skomina was the fourth referee at several UEFA Euro 2008 matches. He refereed the quarter-final match of the football tournament ...
, Slovenian football referee
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Damir Stojak, Serbian football player
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Damir Škaro, Croatian boxer
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Damir Šolman
Damir Šolman (born 7 September 1948) is a Croatian former professional basketball player.
Professional career
Šolman was a FIBA European Selection, in 1974.
National team career
Šolman competed with the senior Yugoslavian national basketball ...
, Croatian basketball player
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Damir Šovšić, Croatian football player of Bosnian descent
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Damir Špica, Bosnian football player
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Damir Šutevski
Damir Šutevski (28 September 1954 – 29 October 2020) was an association football player from Yugoslavia who played for Canadian and American clubs.
Career
Šutevski came from Zagreb, at the time in Yugoslavia, and originally played in the N ...
, Yugoslavian-Canadian association football player
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Damir Urban
Damir Urban (born 19 September 1968) is a Croatian rock musician best known for his work as a singer/songwriter for Laufer and for his solo work with his band Urban & 4.
Early years
Damir Urban was born on 19 September 1968 in Rijeka, Croatia, ...
, Croatian musician
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Damir Vitas, Croatian footballer
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Damir Vrabac, Bosnian football player
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Damir Vrančić
Damir Vrančić (born 4 October 1985) is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder.
Club career
Vrančić made his professional debut for German Bundesliga side 1. FSV Mainz 05 in 2006. After his club's relegation ...
, Bosnian footballer of Croatian descent
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Damir Yusupov, Russian pilot known for safely crash landing
Ural Airlines Flight 178
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Damir Zaynullin, Russian murder victim of Tatar descent
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Damir Zlomislić, Bosnian football player
See also
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References
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