Boško
given name · Latin script
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 7 countries · latest register: DZS, 2021
/bôʃko/(recorded in a dictionary) Croatian · from Wiktionary
Boško is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the Serbo-Croatian personal name Boško.
- HRCroatia1 in 2.1K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 4.5K
- BABosnia & Herzegovina≈1 in 4.6Kfew records
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 Boško itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 51 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.1K (inferred from the name graph)
2,568 named Bosco
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(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
(measured from records)From the Serbo-Croatian personal name Boško.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Boško 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | — | 2,568as Bosco | 1 in 19K | 2.6K | — | 4 |
| HR Croatia | #311 | 2,045 | 1 in 2.1K | 2K | Boško | 35 |
| RS Serbia | #163 | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | — | Boško | 51 |
| MK North Macedonia | — | 1,074as Бошко | 1 in 2K | 1.1K | Boško | 11 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 803as Bosco | 1 in 21K | 803 | — | 1 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #281 | ≈690 est. | ≈1 in 4.6K | — | Boško | 15 |
| ME Montenegro | #117 | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 5.2K | — | Boško | 21 |
2,568 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); State Statistical Office — living population names; INEC — civil registry 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Boško Simonovićb. 1898RSSerbian footballer (1898-1965)
- Božidar Petrovićb. 1911RSnot in their usual nameassociation football player (1911-1937)
- Boško Vuksanovićb. 1928MEYugoslav water polo player (1928–2011)
- Boško Antićb. 1944BAYugoslav and Bosnian footballer and football manager (born 1944)
- Boško Abramovićb. 1951RSchess grandmaster (1951–2021)
- Boško Lozicab. 1952HRCroatian water polo player
- Boško Obradovićb. 1976RSSerbian politician
- Boško Balabanb. 1978HRCroatian footballer
- Boško Jankovićb. 1984RSSerbian footballer (born 1984)
- Boško Šutalob. 2000HRCroatian association football player (2000-)
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)14 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 7 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 2K | #362 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 1.6K | — |
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
- What does the name Boško mean, and where does it come from?
- From the Serbo-Croatian personal name Boško. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Boško?
- In the etymology graph, Darko, Božo and Boban are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Bogdan and Božidar.
- How do you pronounce Boško?
- In Croatian /bôʃko/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Boško a male or female name?
- Boško is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Slovenia (SURS, 2025).
- In which country does Boško have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 2.6 thousand people named Bosco, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Boško most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Boško is densest in Croatia — about 1 in 2.1 thousand people — even though Spain holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Boško?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 2,045 people named Boško in 2021, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Boško compared with other names?
- In Montenegro, Boško is the 117th most common given name of 1,036 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/bo%C5%A1koThe 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, “Boško” — the 117th most common given name in Montenegro. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.