Bojan
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Guerra
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bǒjan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bojan is a given name 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 167(inferred from the name graph)
- SISlovenia1 in 209
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 503
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 Bojan 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)
- Sources
- 156 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 167 (inferred from the name graph)
≈42,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Serbia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Boyan in CN China.
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)
Guerra
Sources 1
- 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bojan 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 167 | — | Bojan | 111 |
| CN China | — | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 116K | — | Boyan | 38 |
| SI Slovenia | #19 | 10,068 | 1 in 209 | 10K | Bojan | 89 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #30 | ≈7,600 est. | ≈1 in 503 | — | Bojan | 38 |
| MK North Macedonia | #24 | 5,550as Бојан | 1 in 383 | 5.5K | Bojan | 59 |
| HR Croatia | #250 | 3,947 | 1 in 1.1K | 3.9K | Bojan | 120 |
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); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Bojan is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Czech: from an old Slavonic personal name, a derivative of the element boi battle. Feminine form: Bojana. Pet forms: Bojánek, Bojek, Bojík m; Bojka f .
as a word
In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of bojar
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of boja
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Czech, coward
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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)
- Bojan Bazellib. 1957MEMontenegrin cinematographer and music video director
- Bojan Pajtićb. 1970RSSerbian politician
- Bojan Navojecb. 1976HRCroatian actor
- Bojan Tokičb. 1981SISlovenian table tennis player
- Bojan Jokićb. 1986SISlovenian footballer
- Bojan Šaranovb. 1987RSSerbian footballer
- Bojan Bogdanovićb. 1989HRCroatian basketball player (born 1989)
- Bojan Krkićb. 1990ESSpanish footballer (born 1990)
- Bojan Dubljevićb. 1991MEMontenegrin basketball player (born 1991)
- Bojan Miovskib. 1999MKMacedonian association football player
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)
Attested in 58 sources across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 10K | #17 |
| SI Slovenia | stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank) | — | 10K | #24 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 3.9K | #242 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 3.5K | — |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — Najpogostejša imena in priimki (population register) | 2017 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- 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
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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 Bojan mean, and where does it come from?
- Guerra Recorded by 25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado.
- How do you pronounce Bojan?
- A machine transcription gives /bǒjan/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- Is Bojan a male or female name?
- Bojan is a male 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 Bojan?
- In the etymology graph, Boyan is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bojan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 42 thousand people named Bojan in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bojan.
- How common is the name Bojan?
- In Slovenia, the national register counted 10,068 people named Bojan in 2025, about 1 in 209 residents.
- How common is Bojan compared with other names?
- In Serbia, Bojan is the 28th most common given name of 10,960 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bojan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bojanThe 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, “Bojan” — the 28th most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.