Nebojsa

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Serbian; do not be afraid

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

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

Nebojsa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Serbia than in any other country, where it is the 41st most common given name.

rarermore common
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 387(inferred from the name graph)
  • HRCroatia1 in 3.2K
  • DEGermany≈1 in 107K

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 Nebojsa 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)

≈18,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
152 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 387 (inferred from the name graph)

Serbia, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

NebojsaLatin(measured from records)
НебојшаCyrillic(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Nebojša in RS Serbia, HR Croatia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina and 1 more and Небојша in MK North Macedonia.

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)

Serbian; do not be afraid

Sources 1

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Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Nebojsa 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 Nebojsa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RS Serbia#41≈18,000 est.≈1 in 387—Nebojša95
BA Bosnia & Herzegovina#81≈1,900 est.≈1 in 2.1K—Nebojša34
HR Croatia#4431,3411 in 3.2K1.3KNebojša36
DE Germany—≈750 est.≈1 in 107K—Nebojsa87
SA Saudi Arabia—≈680 est.≈1 in 50K—Nebojsa10
MK North Macedonia#347662as Небојша1 in 3.2K662Небојша11
ME Montenegro#43≈170 est.≈1 in 3.6K#10Nebojša26

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); State Statistical Office — living population names; the me-monstat-census register. 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)

Nebojsa is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Slovak given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Serbia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Nebojša

  • Russian given name26 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Serbia, Kyrgyzstan, Bulgaria

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian

    Also written Небойша, Nebojša, Neboiša, Neboisha, Небоиша

  • Estonian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Serbia

    Languages: Estonian, Finnish

    Also written Nebojša

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Nebojša, Nebojs̆a

21 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)

1940196019802000Nebojša Pavković, b. 1946Nebojša Radmanović, b. 1949Nebojša Rodić, b. 1953Nebojša Čović, b. 1958Nebojša Vignjević, b. 1968Nebojša Glogovac, b. 1969Nebojša Dugalić, b. 1970Nebojša Krupniković, b. 1973Nebojša Stefanović, b. 1976Nebojša Kosović, b. 1995

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)

InformalBok Nebojsa,Hi Nebojsa, (English)

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 26 sources across 16 countries.

Official registers attesting Nebojsa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
ME MontenegroMONSTAT — census names1971—#10
ME MontenegroStatistical Office of Montenegro (MONSTAT)2023——

Reference works 2

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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 Nebojsa mean, and where does it come from?
Serbian; do not be afraid Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
How do you pronounce Nebojsa?
A machine transcription gives /nêbojsa/ (IPA) for Serbian.
Is Nebojsa a male or female name?
Nebojsa 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.
In which country does Nebojsa have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Nebojsa in Serbia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled nebojša.
How common is the name Nebojsa?
In Croatia, the national register counted 1,341 people named Nebojsa in 2021, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
How common is Nebojsa compared with other names?
In Serbia, Nebojsa is the 41st most common given name of 10,960 given names 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, “Nebojsa” — the 41st most common given name in Serbia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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