Božena

given name · Latin script

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

Božena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country, where it is the 70th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Derived from Czech Božena.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 134(measured from records)
  • PLPoland1 in 197
  • DEGermany≈1 in 25K

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)

194,754 people, 2026

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
193 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 134 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BoženaLatin(measured from records)
ΜποζεναGreek(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derived from Czech Božena.

Sources 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.

Where Božena is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland#70194,7541 in 197195KBozena132
CZ Czechia#21679,7021 in 13480KBožena68
HR Croatia—4,7001 in 9004.7K—2
DE Germany—≈3,200 est.≈1 in 25K—Bozena88
US United States—2,8591 in 116K2.9KBozena193
SI Slovenia—5601 in 3.8K560Božena3
IS Iceland—591 in 5.9K59——

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; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)

Božena is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Lithuanian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Lithuania, Latvia, Russia

    Languages: Lithuanian, Latvian

    Also written Bozena, Božēna

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Boźena, Boẑena, Bożena, Bozena

  • Ukrainian given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Türkiye

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Kazakh

    Also written Божена, Bozhena, Bozena, Бажэна, Bożena

26 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(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)

18001850190019502000Božena Němcová, b. 1820Timrava, b. 1867Božena Dobešová, b. 1914Božena Srncová, b. 1925Bożena Kurowska, b. 1937Bożena Adamek, b. 1952Bozena Stryjkówna, b. 1954Ewa Kopacz, b. 1956Bożena Bąk, b. 1966Bożena Stachura, b. 1974

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 18 sources across 7 countries.

Official registers attesting Božena
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—80K#60
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—40K#69
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—40K#69
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20214.7K#216
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20213.9K—
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2008720#220
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2009714#221
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2010706#227
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2011691#229
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2012684#231
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2013678#234
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names2014665#237

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 Božena mean, and where does it come from?
Derived from Czech Božena. Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Božena a male or female name?
Božena is a female 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 Božena?
In the etymology graph, Bozhena is a form of the same name in other languages; Božica is a recorded short or pet form.
In which country does Božena have the most bearers?
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.
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.

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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, “Božena” — the 70th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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