Božana
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 4 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
Božana is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bosnia & Herzegovina than in any other country.
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 2.7Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- HRCroatia1 in 3.6K
- RSSerbia≈1 in 8.2Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Božana itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Bosnia & Herzegovina (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 77 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,400 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Bosnia & Herzegovina, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Божана in BG Bulgaria, MK North Macedonia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ 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 in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Božana counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #391 | ≈1,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | — | Božana | 10 |
| HR Croatia | #550 | 1,186 | 1 in 3.6K | 1.2K | Božana | 25 |
| BG Bulgaria | #762 | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Божана | 41 |
| RS Serbia | #425 | ≈850 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Božana | 20 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 605as Божана | 1 in 3.5K | 605 | Божана | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); State Statistical Office — living population names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Božana Jovanovićb. 1932RSSerbian costume designer
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)8 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 1.2K | #497 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.1K | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Božana a male or female name?
- Božana is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Slovenia (stat.si Imena rojstva).
- In which country does Božana have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.4 thousand people named Božana in Bosnia & Herzegovina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled božana.
- How common is the name Božana?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 1,186 people named Božana in 2021, about 1 in 3.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Božana compared with other names?
- In Bosnia & Herzegovina, Božana is the 391st most common given name of 4,559 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Božana?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bo%C5%BEanaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Božana” — the 391st most common given name in Bosnia & Herzegovina. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.