Bożena
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bożena 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.
- 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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 193 (measured from records)
- 1 in 134 (inferred from the name graph)
194,754 people, 2026
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bozena in PL Poland, US United States, DE Germany and Božena in CZ Czechia, SI Slovenia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 7 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bożena 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 |
| HR Croatia | — | 4,700 | 1 in 900 | 4.7K | — | 2 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Bozena | 88 |
| US United States | — | 2,859 | 1 in 116K | 2.9K | Bozena | 193 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 560 | 1 in 3.8K | 560 | Božena | 3 |
| IS Iceland | — | 59 | 1 in 5.9K | 59 | — | — |
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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Bożena Kurowskab. 1937PLPolish actress (1937-1969)
- Bożena Mamontowicz-Łojekb. 1937PLPolish historian
- Bożena Pytelb. 1945PLWoman International Master chess player
- Bożena Adamekb. 1952PLPolish actress
- Bozena Stryjkównab. 1954PLPolish actress
- Ewa Kopaczb. 1956PLnot in their usual nameVice President of the European Parliament
- Bożena Sikora-Giżyńskab. 1960PLPolish chess player
- Bożena Haraczb. 1962PLbadminton player
- Bożena Bąkb. 1966PLPolish badminton player
- Bożena Stachurab. 1974PLPolish actress
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 9 sources across 3 countries.
Reference works 3
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- Is Bożena a male or female name?
- Bożena 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 Bożena?
- In the etymology graph, Bozhena is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bożena have the most bearers?
- In Poland, the national register counted about 195 thousand people named Bożena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bozena.
- Where is Bożena most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bożena is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 134 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bożena?
- In Poland, the national register counted 194,754 people named Bożena in 2026, about 1 in 197 residents.
- How common is Bożena compared with other names?
- In Poland, Bożena is the 70th most common given name of 25,969 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bożena?
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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%BCenaThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Bożena” — the 70th most common given name in Poland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.