Boban

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Бобан in MK North Macedonia, BG Bulgaria, RU Russia and Bobán in HU Hungary.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Boban is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name1.3K records spelled Boban4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Serbia, Spain, United States, North Macedonia

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Bobán

• Slovak given name321 records spelled Boban8 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, Serbia

  Languages: Slovak, Czech

  Also written Bobáň, Bobaň, Bőbäñ, Bobán

• a separate given name306 records spelled Boban3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in India, Serbia, United States

  Also written Bobáň, Bōban

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Boban is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Scottish Gaelic, daddy, papa

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 49 years between 1953–2012. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Boban Petrovićb. 1957RSbasketball player (1957–2021)
• Boban Kneževićb. 1959RSwriter
• Slobodan Jankovićb. 1963RSnot in their usual nameSerbian basketball player (1963-2006)
• Boban Markovićb. 1964RSSerbian Romani trumpet player
• Boban Babunskib. 1968MKMacedonian association football player
• Boban Grnčarovb. 1982MKMacedonian footballer
• Boban Apostolovb. 1984MKMacedonian musician
• Boban Marjanovićb. 1988RSSerbian basketball player (born 1988)
• Boban Nikolovb. 1994MKMacedonian footballer
• Boban Lazićb. 1994NLDutch footballer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 179 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Boban?

We estimate roughly 4.4 thousand people bear Boban (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Boban have the most bearers?

Boban is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled boban.

Where is Boban most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boban is densest in North Macedonia — about 1 in 582 people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.

How common is Boban compared with other names?

In Serbia, Boban is the 93rd most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.

Is Boban a male or female name?

Boban is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.