Boško

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Boško is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Serbo-Croatian personal name Boško.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 1.8K(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 2.1K
  • SISlovenia1 in 7.9K

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 Boško itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Serbia (inferred from the name graph)

≈4,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
51 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 1.8K (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BoškoLatin(measured from records)
БошкоCyrillic(measured from records)

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(measured from records)

From the Serbo-Croatian personal name Boško.

Sources 1

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Boško 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.

Where Boško is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#163≈4,000 est.≈1 in 1.8K—Boško51
ES Spain—2,568as Bosco1 in 19K2.6K—4
HR Croatia#3112,0451 in 2.1K2KBoško35
MK North Macedonia—1,074as Бошко1 in 2K1.1KBoško11
EC Ecuador—803as Bosco1 in 21K803—1
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#281≈440 est.≈1 in 8.7K—Boško15
SI Slovenia—2661 in 7.9K266Boško3

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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); State Statistical Office — living population names; INEC — civil registry names; SURS — resident population given 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Boško is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia, United States

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Bosko

  • English surname10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany

    Languages: English, Spanish, German

    Also written Bosko, Boskó

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bosko

  • Russian surname19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Босько, Боско, Bosko, Бешко, Бесько

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Palestine, Egypt, Morocco

    Also written Bosko

22 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1850190019502000Boško Simonović, b. 1898Božidar Petrović, b. 1911Boško Vuksanović, b. 1928Boško Antić, b. 1944Boško Abramović, b. 1951Boško Lozica, b. 1952Boško Obradović, b. 1976Boško Balaban, b. 1978Boško Janković, b. 1984Boško Šutalo, b. 2000

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(measured from records)

Attested in 14 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Boško
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20212K#362
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20211.6K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2010278#352
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2021276#408
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2020276#405
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2011275#359
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2009274#344
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2024270#424
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2008270#345
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2019267#397
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2013267#374
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2012267#366

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

What does the name Boško mean, and where does it come from?
From the Serbo-Croatian personal name Boško. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Boško a male or female name?
Boško 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.
What are other forms of the name Boško?
In the etymology graph, Darko, Božo and Boban are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Bogdan and Božidar.
In which country does Boško have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 4.0 thousand people named Boško in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boško.
How common is the name Boško?
In Croatia, the national register counted 2,045 people named Boško in 2021, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
How common is Boško compared with other names?
In Serbia, Boško is the 163rd most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.

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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, “Boško” — the 163rd most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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