Based on the 18th-century transcription, the toponym is derived from the personal name Dragoš.

[4] Early settlement of the area is attested by the remnants of a building from antiquity along the road to Brezje (now part of Maribor).

In addition to the building's foundations, the find included a small marble trough, which has been converted into a holy water font in the church in Brezje.

[6][7][8][9][10] A post-Baroque chapel shrine with simple furnishings stands along the road to Brezje.

There is a large, masonry column-shrine from the first half of the 18th century along the road to Miklavž na Dravskem Polju.