Bostjan
given name · Hungarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bostjan is a given name, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country, where it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hungarian and Slovenian, written in the Latin script.
- SISlovenia1 in 219◐
- HRCroatia1 in 163K
- CHSwitzerland1 in 290K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈9.6K ●
- Sources
- 74 ●
- 1 in 219 ◐
across 4 countries
885 records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 17 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | #29 | 9,584△ | 503 rec. | 1 in 219 | 9.6K | Bostjan | 74 |
| US United States | — | 143 | 116 rec. | — | — | Bostjan | 34 |
| DE Germany | — | 139 | 121 rec. | — | — | Bostjan | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 56 | 34 rec. | — | — | Bostjan | 13 |
| AT Austria | — | 50 | 17 rec. | — | 2 | Bostjan | 20 |
| CH Switzerland | — | 27 | 21 rec. | — | — | Bostjan | 8 |
| HR Croatia | — | 26△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 163K | 26 | Bostjan | 5 |
| AU Australia | — | 25 | 17 rec. | — | — | Bostjan | 11 |
| PL Poland | — | 9△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 4.3M | 9 | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | — | 9 | 8 rec. | — | — | Bostjan | 3 |
| IT Italy | — | 8 | 7 rec. | — | — | Bostjan | 6 |
| CA Canada | — | 8 | 9 rec. | — | — | Bostjan | 5 |
Roughly 9.6K people in Slovenia bear this name (about 1 in 219). 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●
- Hungarian20K91%
- Slovenian8184%
- English2681%
- German2231%
- Croatian1481%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hungarian | 19,609 | 91% |
| Slovenian | 818 | 4% |
| English | 268 | 1% |
| German | 223 | 1% |
| Croatian | 148 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Notable people with this name●
- Boštjan Kordašb. 1899ATSlovenian veterinarian
- Boštjan Hladnikb. 1929SIYugoslavian/Slovenian filmmaker (1929–2006)
- Boštjan Poklukarb. 1971SISlovene politician and minister of the interior
- Boštjan Lebanb. 1973SISlovene basketball player
- Boštjan Nachbarb. 1980SISlovenian basketball player (born 1980)
- Boštjan Bučb. 1980SIathletics competitor
- Boštjan Cesarb. 1982SISlovenian footballer
- Bostjan Goličičb. 1989SISlovenian ice hockey player
- Boštjan Klineb. 1991SISlovene alpine skier
- Boštjan VircSIfilm producer
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 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 16 | #30,993 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4 | #48,255 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024) | 2005 | 2 | #1,065 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 2005 | 1 | #1,270 |
| AT Austria | Statistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present) | 1997 | 1 | #752 |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 5 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Bostjan?
- We estimate roughly 9.6 thousand people bear Bostjan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Bostjan have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 9.6 thousand people bear Bostjan in Slovenia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled bostjan.
- Where is Bostjan most common?
- Bostjan is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 219 people carrying it.
- How common is Bostjan compared with other names?
- In Slovenia, Bostjan is the 29th most common given name of 11,759 given names recorded there.
- Is Bostjan a male or female name?
- Bostjan 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.
Query this name via API
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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, “Bostjan” — the 29th most common given name in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.