Names of Bosnia & Herzegovina BA

The names that most distinguish Bosnia & Herzegovina from the rest of the world are Zoran, Edin and Dragan; in our record corpus the commonest names held in Bosnia & Herzegovina are Zoran and Kovačević.

Written in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian.

Population: 3.8M
Name forms recorded: 9.1K

CBuilt from 2 sub-national, 9,099 name forms in our corpus, 7 cited works.

No official register found for this country — the ranking below is our record corpus alone.

The account of the naming system rests on encyclopaedia and genealogy sources; it has not yet been checked against onomastic literature.

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Where the names most characteristic of Bosnia & Herzegovina are borne outside it — the same spelling, counted in our record corpus. Shares are of all bearers of those names anywhere, Bosnia & Herzegovina included.

How names work in Bosnia & Herzegovina

Names in Bosnia & Herzegovina follow one naming tradition. Its structure, its given-name and surname stock, how to address someone and what trips software up are set out on its own page.

Serbo-CroatianHow these names work →

The most common names in Bosnia & Herzegovina

Every record we hold for Bosnia & Herzegovina — 9,099 name forms across historical registers, the diaspora and several decades of births. Not a census.
#	Name	Estimated bearers	How common
2	Zoran	—	—
3	Dragan	—	—
4	Goran	—	—
5	Željko	—	—
6	Edin	—	—
10	Emir	—	—
12	Damir	—	—
13	Senad	—	—
14	Mladen	—	—
15	Adnan	—	—
16	Emina	—	—
17	Mirsad	—	—
21	Miroslav	—	—
23	Branko	—	—
26	Dragana	—	—
28	Haris	—	—
29	Dejan	—	—
30	Mirza	—	—
31	Almir	—	—
32	Slobodan	—	—
33	Admir	—	—
34	Bojan	—	—
35	Nenad	—	—
37	Milorad	—	—
38	Sanja	—	—
39	Josip	—	—
41	Nermin	—	—
43	Predrag	—	—
44	Saša	—	—
46	Darko	—	—
48	Gordana	—	—
50	Miloš	—	—
52	Mirko	—	—
54	Vesna	—	—
55	Tomislav	—	—
56	Sanela	—	—
57	Siniša	—	—
58	Sead	—	—
59	Alma	—	—
60	Mirjana	—	—
62	Nedim	—	—
63	Mario	—	—
64	Ivica	—	—
65	Ajla	—	—
68	Azra	—	—
69	Amela	—	—
70	Dalibor	—	—
71	Biljana	—	—
73	Milica	—	—
74	Đorđe	—	—
75	Enes	—	—
76	Armin	—	—
77	Kenan	—	—
79	Zdravko	—	—
80	Недељко	—	—
81	Nemanja	—	—
82	Nebojša	—	—
83	Ante	—	—
84	Mehmed	—	—
85	Branislav	—	—
86	Dušan	—	—
90	Milenko	—	—
91	Selma	—	—
92	Ibrahim	—	—
93	Amar	—	—
94	Dino	—	—
95	Tarik	—	—
97	Davor	—	—
98	Nihad	—	—
99	Drago	—	—
100	Ljiljana	—	—
102	Slavko	—	—
103	Slaviša	—	—
104	Amer	—	—
105	Srđan	—	—
106	Edina	—	—
107	Esad	—	—
109	Zlatko	—	—
110	Vedran	—	—
111	Nada	—	—
112	Jovana	—	—
113	Safet	—	—
114	Muamer	—	—
115	Mirela	—	—
116	Elma	—	—
118	Nermina	—	—
119	Радован	—	—
120	Senada	—	—
121	Adis	—	—
122	Semir	—	—
123	Slavica	—	—
124	Kemal	—	—
126	Pero	—	—
127	Anto	—	—
129	Ismet	—	—
130	Nikolina	—	—
131	Slađana	—	—
133	Dario	—	—
134	Miodrag	—	—
136	Branka	—	—

No official register

We have not found a published name register for Bosnia & Herzegovina at an authority tier we would headline. 2 sub-national register(s) exist and are listed below, but a regional list is not a national one. The ranking above is our record corpus, and it is labelled as such. If you publish or know of a register for this country, we would like to hear about it.

Characteristic of Bosnia & Herzegovina

Not the most common names — the most distinctive ones. A name appears here when Bosnia & Herzegovina holds a larger share of its bearers than the world does, weighted by how much of the country's whole name distribution it accounts for.

Sized by how much of the difference between Bosnia & Herzegovina's name distribution and the world's this name accounts for. Hover for its share here against its share worldwide.●

Scripts & spelling

Names in Bosnia & Herzegovina are written in Latin (99%) and Cyrillic (1%), measured over the spellings our corpus records for this country.

The best-attested names in Bosnia & Herzegovina, in the spelling our records use there. Where a Latin spelling is also attested it is shown beneath — a spelling from the corpus, not a machine romanisation.

Countries whose names look alike

Measured as the overlap between each country's top 300 given-name forms, weighted by how common each is — the fuzzy-set approach of Lauc (2024), on a truncated inventory.

Registers & sources

Sub-national registers

2 registers for Bosnia & Herzegovina publish regional lists only (FZS — 100 najčešćih imena (Top-100 Newborn Names, Federation of BiH); RZS RS — Muška i ženska imena (Male and Female Names, Republika Srpska)). A regional list is not a national one, and summing regions would be an aggregate the publisher never made, so no figure on this page comes from them.

Cited works

Behind this page's own account — its one-line answer, its explanation of why the rankings differ, and the notes on its registers. Each naming tradition cites its own sources on its page. Not yet checked against onomastic literature.

Bosnia and Herzegovina Naming Customsgenealogy
Bosnian Surnamesgenealogy
Croatian nameencyclopaedia
Serbia Naming Customsgenealogy
Serbian nameencyclopaedia
Slavic surnamesgenealogy
Why do most Serbian surnames end in -ić?web

About this data

Official figures are reproduced from the register named beside them, at the year named beside them, and are never combined across registers. The "across all records" ranking counts records in our own corpus — historical registers, the diaspora, business and place records — and is not a population count. Bearer estimates are omitted where a name accounts for more than a quarter of a country's records, because the estimate is not defensible there. Names listed by reference works and licensed name dictionaries are cited as attesting a name; their figures are not published.

Data snapshot: 2026-09-12.

Questions

Is there an official list of the most common names in Bosnia & Herzegovina?: We have not found one at an authority tier we would publish. The ranking on this page comes from our own record corpus and is labelled as such. If a register exists, we would like to hear about it.

Cite this page: Mondonomo, “Names of Bosnia & Herzegovina”, https://nelma.mondonomo.ai/names/BA (data snapshot 2026-09-12).