Buna

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Bojana in HR Croatia, RS Serbia, SI Slovenia and 19 more, Баяна in KG Kyrgyzstan, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, Бојана in MK North Macedonia and Бояна in BG Bulgaria.

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●

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◐

Buna is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate name708 records spelled Buna3 spellings in the group

  Also written Bůna, Būnā

• Amharic surname189 records spelled Buna6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ethiopia, United States

  Also written Bune, ቡና, ቡነ, Bunna, ቡናእ

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●

Buna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, village. New Guinea

  as a name·Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

• In rug, a littoral vine; macerated and thrown into water in rock holes it stupefies fish

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In Romanian, definite nominative/accusative feminine singular of bun

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

• In mmx, small dove with red, green, and blue breast feathers

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

• In rug, species of plant with poisonous leaves

  as a word·Austronesian Comparative Dictionary (ACD), CLDF v2.0

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●

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 85 years between 1917–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Konstantin Sándor Bunab. 1938HUHungarian painter (1938-2017)
• Gábor Bunab. 2002HUHungarian association football player

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 · 340 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Buna?

We estimate roughly 8.4 thousand people bear Buna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Buna have the most bearers?

Buna is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled bojana.

How common is Buna compared with other names?

In Serbia, Buna is the 50th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.

What does the name Buna mean?

Recorded meaning: Any of an early generation of synthetic polybutadiene rubbers produced using sodium as a catalyst.