Ognjen

Spellings & scripts●

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 8 languages in the etymology graph.

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◐

Ognjen is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Russian given name116 records spelled Ognjen9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Serbia, Türkiye

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

  Also written Огнен, Ognen, Огнєн, Огњен

34 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●

Ognjen 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 English, A male given name from the Slavic languages.

  as a word·kaikki.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●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 34 years between 1940–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Ognjen Petrovićb. 1948RSSerbian footballer (1948-2000)
• Ognjen Sviličićb. 1971HRCroatian screenwriter and film director
• Ognjen Aškrabićb. 1979RSSerbian basketball player
• Ognjen Vukojevićb. 1983HRCroatian association football manager and former player
• Ognjen Vranješb. 1989RSBosnian association football player
• Ognjen Kuzmićb. 1990BASerbian basketball player (born 1990)
• Ognjen Dobrićb. 1994HRSerbian basketball player (born 1994)
• Ognjen Ožegovićb. 1994RSSerbian footballer
• Ognjen Jaramazb. 1995RSSerbian basketball player (born 1995)
• Ognjen Čarapićb. 1998MEMontenegrin basketball player (born 1998)

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 · 128 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Ognjen?

We estimate roughly 1.2 thousand people bear Ognjen (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Ognjen have the most bearers?

Ognjen is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled ognjen.

How common is Ognjen compared with other names?

In Serbia, Ognjen is the 116th most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.

Is Ognjen a male or female name?

Ognjen 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.