Bojan

given name · Croatian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bojan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is the 31st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Croatian and Hungarian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Guerra.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia1 in 190◐
  • SISlovenia1 in 209
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina1 in 352

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈22K ●

across 9 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
165 ●

45K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 209 ◐

Slovenia

Spellings & scripts●

BojanLatin · Croatian●38K records
БојанCyrillic · Macedonian●5.8K records

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Boyan in BG Bulgaria, ES Spain, CN China and 2 more, Боян in RU Russia, TR Türkiye, Бојан in MK North Macedonia and Boian in UA Ukraine.

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●

Guerra

Sources 1

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Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bojan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#3116,85411K rec.——Bojan90
BG Bulgaria#14211,4632.9K rec.——Boyan119
SI Slovenia#2310,068△739 rec.1 in 20910KBojan70
MK North Macedonia#465,550△217 rec.1 in 3835.5KБојан48
HR Croatia#2353,9478.3K rec.1 in 1.1K3.9KBojan117
DE Germany—2,5842.3K rec.—1Bojan103
AT Austria—1,324657 rec.—73Bojan68
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#341,254145 rec.——Bojan36
AU Australia—1,1031K rec.—1Bojan78
KG Kyrgyzstan—9010 rec.——Bojan1
RU Russia—8641K rec.——Боян72
GB United Kingdom—801544 rec.——Bojan46

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Croatian38K42%
  • Hungarian21K23%
  • Serbian7.1K8%
  • English5K6%
  • German4.2K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Croatian37,77542%
Hungarian20,81723%
Serbian7,0638%
English5,0186%
German4,1925%

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◐

Bojan is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name2.9K records spelled Bojan4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia, United States, Spain, Argentina

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Boján

  • Polish given name1.4K records spelled Bojan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Serbia, United States, Romania

    Also written Bóĵąñ

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name1.1K records spelled Bojan10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Serbia

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Boyan

  • a separate given name1.1K records spelled Bojan2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Serbia, United States, Slovenia

    Also written Boján

  • Czech given name677 records spelled Bojan3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, Serbia, United States

    Languages: Czech, Slovak

    Also written Boján

41 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●

Bojan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • Czech: from an old Slavonic personal name, a derivative of the element boi battle. Feminine form: Bojana. Pet forms: Bojánek, Bojek, Bojík m; Bojka f .

    as a word

  • In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of bojar

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swedish, definite singular of boja

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, coward

    as a wordkaikki.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●

02040608019601980200062 · 1982

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Bojan in ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search), Kosovo, 1951–2018
Yearrecords
19511
19561
19581
19601
19631
19651
19672
19682
19696
19704
197110
197218
197322
197415
197526
197635
197737
197839
197955
198060
198154
198262
198357
198437
198549
198633
198729
198828
198917
199017
199113
199217
199313
19949
19958
19969
199716
19988
19996
20003
20015
20022
20033
20048
20053
20061
20073
20081
20094
20121
20141
20151
20182

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 53 years between 1951–2018. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Bojan Bazelli, b. 1957Bojan Pajtić, b. 1970Bojan Navojec, b. 1976Bojan Tokič, b. 1981Bojan Jokić, b. 1986Bojan Šaranov, b. 1987Bojan Bogdanović, b. 1989Bojan Krkić, b. 1990Bojan Dubljević, b. 1991Bojan Miovski, b. 1999

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 53 sources across 28 countries.

Official registers attesting Bojan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names200811K#17
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names201011K#17
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names202510K#17
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—10K#24
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20213.9K#242
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20213.5K—
XK KosovoASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search)—857#803
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020788#14,820
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—758#2,064
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—590#2,252
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020441—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020280#74,428

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • 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 · 234 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bojan?
We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Bojan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Bojan have the most bearers?
Bojan is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled bojan.
How common is Bojan compared with other names?
In Serbia, Bojan is the 31st most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.
Is Bojan a male or female name?
Bojan 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.
What does the name Bojan mean?
Recorded meaning: Guerra
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

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, “Bojan” — the 31st most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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