Bokán
surname · Latin script
Meaning: superessive singular of boka
Bokán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 14K(measured from records)
- SISlovenia1 in 6.5K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 12K
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.
- Serbia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 36 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈550 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Slovenia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bokan in HR Croatia, SI Slovenia, RS Serbia and 3 more.
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)superessive singular of boka
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bokán 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 | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 13K | — | Bokan | 31 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 322 | 1 in 6.5K | 322 | Bokan | 7 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | — | ≈310 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Bokan | 11 |
| HR Croatia | — | 293 | 1 in 14K | 293 | Bokan | 36 |
| US United States | — | 189 | 1 in 1.8M | 189 | Bokan | 28 |
| ME Montenegro | #632 | ≈26 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Bokan | 7 |
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); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bokán mean, and where does it come from?
- superessive singular of boka Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Bokán have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 545 people named Bokán in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bokan.
- Where is Bokán most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bokán is densest in Slovenia — about 1 in 6.5 thousand people — even though Serbia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bokán?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 322 people named Bokán, about 1 in 6.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Bokán compared with other names?
- In Montenegro, Bokán is the 632nd most common surname of 2,395 surnames 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/bok%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, “Bokán” — the 632nd most common surname in Montenegro. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.