Božena
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈbɔʒena/(recorded in a dictionary) Slovak · from Wiktionary
Božena is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country: 194,754 people, counted by dane.gov.pl in 2026. Recorded meaning: Derived from Czech Božena. Božena is also written Μποζενα in Greek.
- CZCzechia1 in 134(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 197
- HRCroatia1 in 900
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Poland (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- 1 in 134 (inferred from the name graph)
194,754 people, 2026
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Božena in other scripts: Greek
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bozena in PL Poland, US United States, DE Germany.
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.
How to pronounce Božena
- Slovak:/ˈbɔʒena/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
- Czech:/ˈboʒɛna/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Derived from Czech Božena.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Božena 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | #70 | 194,754 | 1 in 197 | 195K | Bozena | 132 |
| CZ Czechia | #216 | 79,702 | 1 in 134 | 80K | Božena | 68 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈5,100 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Bozena | 88 |
| HR Croatia | — | 4,700 | 1 in 900 | 4.7K | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | 2,859 | 1 in 116K | 2.9K | Bozena | 193 |
| SK Slovakia | #118 | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | — | Božena | 38 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 560 | 1 in 3.8K | 560 | Božena | 3 |
194,754 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026, counting the spelling bożena. 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: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); MVČR — living population register 2017; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); 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 recorded senses
(measured from records)Božena 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 Latvian, Sievietes vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Božena Němcováb. 1820ATCzech writer (1820-1862)
- Timravab. 1867SKnot in their usual nameCzechoslovak playwright and prosaic (1867–1951)
- Ewa Kopaczb. 1956PLnot in their usual nameVice President of the European Parliament
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)18 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Božena?
- It depends on the language: in Slovak /ˈbɔʒena/ (Wiktionary); in Czech /ˈboʒɛna/ (Wiktionary).
- What does the name Božena mean, and where does it come from?
- Derived from Czech Božena. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Božena?
- In the etymology graph, Bozhena is a form of the same name in other languages; Božica is a recorded short or pet form.
- Is Božena a male or female name?
- Božena is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Slovenia (SURS, 2025).
- Which countries have the most people named Božena?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 195 thousand people named Božena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bozena. After it come Czechia, Germany, Croatia and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Božena most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Božena is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 134 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Božena?
- In Poland, the national register counted 194,754 people named Božena in 2026, about 1 in 197 residents.
- How common is Božena compared with other names?
- In Poland, Božena is the 70th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Božena?
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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%BEenaThe 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, “Božena” — ranked 36th in Poland (dane.gov.pl). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.