Boyan
given name · Bulgarian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Boyan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is the 31st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Bulgarian and English, written in the Latin script.
- 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 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 165 ●
- 1 in 209 ◐
across 9 countries
recorded for this name
45K records
Official registry-verified
Slovenia
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Bojan in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia, RS Serbia and 14 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
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #31 | 16,854 | 11K rec. | — | — | Bojan | 90 |
| BG Bulgaria | #142 | 11,463 | 2.9K rec. | — | — | Boyan | 119 |
| SI Slovenia | #23 | 10,068△ | 739 rec. | 1 in 209 | 10K | Bojan | 70 |
| MK North Macedonia | #46 | 5,550△ | 217 rec. | 1 in 383 | 5.5K | Бојан | 48 |
| HR Croatia | #235 | 3,947 | 8.3K rec. | 1 in 1.1K | 3.9K | Bojan | 117 |
| DE Germany | — | 2,584 | 2.3K rec. | — | 1 | Bojan | 103 |
| AT Austria | — | 1,324 | 657 rec. | — | 73 | Bojan | 68 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #34 | 1,254 | 145 rec. | — | — | Bojan | 36 |
| AU Australia | — | 1,103 | 1K rec. | — | 1 | Bojan | 78 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | — | 901 | 0 rec. | — | — | Bojan | 1 |
| RU Russia | — | 864 | 1K rec. | — | — | Боян | 72 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 801 | 544 rec. | — | — | Bojan | 46 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Bulgarian9.1K63%
- English1.6K11%
- French5744%
- Spanish5254%
- Chinese5254%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Bulgarian | 9,122 | 63% |
| English | 1,611 | 11% |
| French | 574 | 4% |
| Spanish | 525 | 4% |
| Chinese | 525 | 4% |
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●
Boyan is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Turkish, second-person singular possessive singular of boya
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of boyar
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●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 |
| 2013 | 8 |
| 2015 | 12 |
| 2016 | 9 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2018 | 6 |
| 2019 | 13 |
| 2020 | 8 |
| 2021 | 13 |
| 2022 | 5 |
| 2023 | 10 |
| 2024 | 6 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 13 years between 2012–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Boyan Penevb. 1882BGBulgarian literary historian
- Boyan Danovskib. 1899BGBulgarian film director and playwright (1899-1976)
- Boyan Petkanchinb. 1907BGBulgarian logician
- Boyan Radevb. 1942BGBulgarian wrestler
- Boyan Jovanovicb. 1951RSSerbian economist
- Boyan Vodenitcharovb. 1960BGBulgarian musician
- Boyan Vukelicb. 1971FRFrench-Canadian actor
- Boyan Petrovb. 1973BGBulgarian zoologist and mountaineer (1973-2018)
- Boyan Yordanovb. 1983BGBulgarian volleyball player
- Boyan Slatb. 1994NLDutch inventor and environmentalist
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 39 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 430 | #48,995 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 425 | #47,026 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 417 | #53,526 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 335 | #25,276 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 142 | #3,558 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 124 | #6,144 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 121 | #13,568 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 99 | #8,061 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 79 | — |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 78 | #547 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 50 | #8,078 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 49 | #4,860 |
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 · 95 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Boyan?
- We estimate roughly 22 thousand people bear Boyan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Boyan have the most bearers?
- Boyan is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled bojan.
- How common is Boyan compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Boyan is the 31st most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.
- Is Boyan a male or female name?
- Boyan 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.
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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, “Boyan” — the 31st most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.