Bosanac

surname · Latin script

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

/bosǎːnats/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bosanac is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 4.7K(measured from records)
  • BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 9.6K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 16K

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.

Croatia (measured from records)

891 people, 2021

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
71 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 4.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Croatia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BosanacLatin(measured from records)
БосанацCyrillic(measured from records)

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.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bosanac 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 Bosanac is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
HR Croatia#3198911 in 4.7K891Bosanac40
RS Serbia#999≈450 est.≈1 in 16K—Bosanac31
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina—≈400 est.≈1 in 9.6K—Bosanac5
US United States—1491 in 2.2M149Bosanac71
CA Canada—≈41 est.≈1 in 919K—Bosanac8
NO Norway—201 in 273K20—2
SI Slovenia—151 in 140K15Bosanac4

891 people counted by DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form), 2021. 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); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)

Bosanac is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Bosanač

29 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19001920194019601980Tomo Bosanac, b. 1918Milan Bosanac, b. 1926Đorđe Bosanac, b. 1948Vesna Bosanac, b. 1949Mira Bosanac, b. 1953Gordan Bosanac, b. 1973Milan Bosanac, 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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalPoštovani Bosanac,Dear Bosanac, (English)
InformalPoštovani Bosanac,Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 17 sources across 10 countries.

Official registers attesting Bosanac
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)2021891#643
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021)2021724—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010149#116,829
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000145#112,365
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020133#132,523
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—20#42,561
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—15#15,882
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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

How do you pronounce Bosanac?
A machine transcription gives /bosǎːnats/ (IPA) for Croatian.
In which country does Bosanac have the most bearers?
In Croatia, the national register counted about 891 people named Bosanac, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bosanac.
Where is Bosanac most common?
Bosanac is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 4.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Bosanac?
In Croatia, the national register counted 891 people named Bosanac in 2021, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.
How common is Bosanac compared with other names?
In Croatia, Bosanac is the 319th most common surname of 72,581 surnames 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, “Bosanac” — the 319th most common surname in Croatia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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