Dražeta

Gender	Masculine
Language(s)	Serbo-Croatian
Meaning	drag (dear)
Region of origin	Balkans
Short form(s)	Draže (supposed older variant)
Anglicisation(s)	Drazeta
Related names	Dražetin (surname) Dražetić (surname)

Dražeta (Serbian Cyrillic: Дражета), in some English sources also Drazeta, is a fairly rare South Slavic surname and archaic personal name, originally found in five places on the territory of former Yugoslavia: Mošorin (Serbia), Stari Banovci (Serbia), Ivoševci (Croatia), Hodilje (Croatia), and Jajce (Bosnia and Herzegovina). People with this surname who live in Mošorin, Stari Banovci, and Ivoševci are Orthodox Serbs, while those who live in Hodilje and Jajce are Catholic Croats. The family slava (patron saint) of Orthodox Dražeta is Saint Stephen. There is information claiming that some Muslim Bosniaks with this surname live in western Bosnia near Prijedor, but this is not confirmed.

Surname Dražeta derived from the South Slavic first name Dražeta, which was first recorded in the 12th century in Herzegovina. First name Dražeta derived from its older variant Draže, which derived from Slavic word "drag" ("dear" in English). It is not exactly clear where and when the surname Dražeta appeared since first reliable data about surname dating from the 18th century. There is also a record from 1521 about a person in the village of Desići in Montenegro, whose name was Dražeta Radivoj, but it is not certain whether Dražeta was the name or surname of this person.

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