Ognjan
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/o˦˨ɡnjan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Ognjan is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Croatia than in any other country.
- HRCroatia1 in 74K(measured from records)
- RSSerbia≈1 in 162K
- USUnited States≈1 in 18M
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)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 16 (measured from records)
- 1 in 74K (inferred from the name graph)
57 people, 2021
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Croatia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Огњан in RS Serbia.
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 across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Ognjan 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | 57 | 1 in 74K | 57 | Ognjan | 10 |
| RS Serbia | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 162K | — | Огњан | 16 |
| US United States | ≈19 est. | ≈1 in 18M | — | Ognjan | 5 |
| XK Kosovo | — | — | 35 | — | 1 |
| CZ Czechia | — | — | 2 | — | — |
57 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); ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search); MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- Ognyan Doinovb. 1935BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian politician (1935-2000)
- Ognyan Saparevb. 1942BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian literary critic
- Ognyan Gerdzhikovb. 1946BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Bulgaria
- Ognyan Nikolovb. 1949BGnot in their usual nameOlympic wrestler
- Ognyan Radevb. 1955BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian teacher (1955-2015)
- Ognyan Minchevb. 1958BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian political scientist
- Ognyan Kovachevb. 1961BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian translator
- Ognyan Stoichkovb. 1968BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian politician
- Ognyan Stefanovb. 1986BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian footballer
- Fyreb. 1995BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian rapper and actor
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 4 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HR Croatia | DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form) | 2021 | 57 | #12,110 |
| HR Croatia | DZS — Učestalost prezimena (Popis 2021) | 2021 | 49 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Ognjan?
- A machine transcription gives /o˦˨ɡnjan/ (IPA) for Croatian.
- In which country does Ognjan have the most bearers?
- In Croatia, the national register counted about 57 people named Ognjan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ognjan.
- Where is Ognjan most common?
- Ognjan is densest in Croatia, where the national register counts about 1 in 74 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Ognjan?
- In Croatia, the national register counted 57 people named Ognjan in 2021, about 1 in 74 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ognjanThe 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, “Ognjan”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.