Boján
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Boján is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 28th most common given name.
- RSSerbia≈1 in 160(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 209
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 340
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 Boján 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 158 (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Bojan in RS Serbia, SI Slovenia, MK North Macedonia and 2 more and Boyan in BG Bulgaria.
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)Bojan som kvinnonamn är ursprungligen en svensk smekform till namn på → Borg-, -borg. Det uttalas oftast med accent 2. Som mansnamn är Bojan av slaviskt ursprung. Det är bildat antingen av en form av det sydslaviska verbet bojati se ’vara rädd’ eller till namn som Bojeslav/Bojislav (sammansatta av fornslaviska ord för ’strid’ och ’ära, beröm’; jfr → Miroslav och → Stani slaw där samma ord, slava, ingår). Till skillnad mot kvinnonamnet Bojan uttalas mansnamnet med accent 1.
Cited for this meaning 3
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- Nordic Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Boján 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RS Serbia | #28 | ≈42,000 est. | ≈1 in 158 | — | Bojan | 111 |
| SI Slovenia | #19 | 10,068 | 1 in 209 | 10K | Bojan | 89 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #30 | ≈9,400 est. | ≈1 in 335 | — | Bojan | 38 |
| BG Bulgaria | #125 | ≈5,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | — | Boyan | 130 |
| MK North Macedonia | #24 | 5,550as Бојан | 1 in 383 | 5.5K | Bojan | 59 |
| ME Montenegro | #40 | ≈940 est. | ≈1 in 666 | register #7 | Bojan | 32 |
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: SURS — resident population given names; 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)3 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 1 country.
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
- In which country does Boján have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Boján in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bojan.
- How common is the name Boján?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 10,068 people named Boján in 2025, about 1 in 209 residents.
- How common is Boján compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Boján is the 28th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/boj%C3%A1nThe 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, “Boján” — the 28th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.