Boian
surname · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Boian is a surname, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Portuguese, written in the Latin script.
- USUnited States1 in 2.9M◐
- RORomania1 in 260K
- NONorway1 in 342K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈500 ●
- Sources
- 85 ●
- 1 in 342K ◐
across 10 countries
2.0K records
Official registry-verified
Norway
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | 242 | — | 1 in 875K | 242 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | 133 | 143 rec. | — | — | Boian | 5 |
| US United States | 115 | 1.5K rec. | 1 in 2.9M | 176 | Boian | 85 |
| CA Canada | 97 | 100 rec. | — | — | Boian | 5 |
| AU Australia | 72 | 72 rec. | — | — | Boian | 10 |
| ES Spain | 63△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 794K | 63 | — | 3 |
| DE Germany | 51 | 103 rec. | — | — | Boian | 24 |
| PL Poland | 42△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 911K | 42 | — | 1 |
| CN China | 25 | 25 rec. | — | — | Boian | 1 |
| RO Romania | 19 | 8 rec. | — | — | Boian | 15 |
| RU Russia | 18 | 18 rec. | — | — | Boian | 2 |
| NO Norway | 16 | 0 rec. | 1 in 342K | 16 | — | 1 |
Roughly 242 people in Brazil bear this name (about 1 in 875K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English1.8K44%
- Portuguese43511%
- Ukrainian40910%
- Spanish3769%
- Romanian3258%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 1,786 | 44% |
| Portuguese | 435 | 11% |
| Ukrainian | 409 | 10% |
| Spanish | 376 | 9% |
| Romanian | 325 | 8% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Boian 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 Russian, "fear."
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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.
Notable people with this name●
- Octav Boianb. 1863Romanian general (1863-1941)
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●
Attested in 22 sources across 15 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 242 | #31,458 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 176 | #107,521 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 117 | #133,114 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 115 | #144,141 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 63 | #38,226 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 63 | #37,783 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 42 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 42 | #55,704 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 25 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 25 | #77,784 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 16 | #47,896 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 11 | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 25 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Boian?
- We estimate roughly 500 people bear Boian (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
- In which country does Boian have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 242 people bear Boian in Brazil, more than in any other country in our records.
Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boianThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Boian”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.