Stoyan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Stoyan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Bulgaria than in any other country, where it is the 16th most common given name.
- USUnited States1 in 919K(measured from records)
- BGBulgaria1 in 153as Стоян
- RSSerbia≈1 in 1.4Kas Stojan
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 Stoyan 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.
- Bulgaria (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 165 (measured from records)
- 1 in 117K (inferred from the name graph)
45,407 named Стоян, 2018
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Стојан in MK North Macedonia, BA Bosnia & Herzegovina, Stojan in RS Serbia, SI Slovenia and Стоян in BG Bulgaria.
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 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Stoyan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | #16 | 45,407as Стоян | 1 in 153 | 45K | Стоян | 152 |
| RS Serbia | #161 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Stojan | 43 |
| MK North Macedonia | #170 | 4,123as Стојан | 1 in 516 | 4.1K | Стојан | 33 |
| SI Slovenia | #314 | 1,340as Stojan | 1 in 1.6K | 1.3K | Stojan | 31 |
| BA Bosnia & Herzegovina | #191 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.8K | — | Стојан | 19 |
| US United States | — | 362 | 1 in 919K | 362 | Stoyan | 165 |
| DK Denmark | — | 50 | 1 in 117K | 72 | — | — |
45,407 people counted by NSI — most common given names (population), 2018. 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: NSI — most common given names (population); State Statistical Office — living population names; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SURS — resident population given names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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)
Stoyan is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Russian, var of Stogan.
as a wordA Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)
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)
- Stoyan Zaimovb. 1853BGBulgarian revolutionary (1853–1932)
- Stoyan Danevb. 1858BGBulgarian politician (1858-1949)
- Stoyan Kosturkovb. 1866BGBulgarian politician
- Stoi︠a︡n Nestorov Karolevb. 1921BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian literary critic
- Stoyan Georgiev Demirevb. 1932BGBulgarian cyclist
- Stoyan Ilievb. 1932BGBulgarian philologist
- Stoyan Bobekovb. 1953BGBulgarian bicycle racer
- Stoi︠a︡n Dinkovb. 1964BGnot in their usual nameBulgarian writer
- Stoyan Yankulovb. 1966BGBulgarian drummer
- Stoyan Stavrevb. 1975BGBulgarian footballer
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 19 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2016 | 48K | #12 |
| BG Bulgaria | NSI — most common given names (population) | 2018 | 45K | #12 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 362 | #25,961 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 50 | #2,320 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2020 | 11 | #2,253 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2019 | 11 | #2,206 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2015 | 11 | #2,057 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2014 | 11 | #2,044 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2018 | 10 | #2,263 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2017 | 10 | #2,241 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2016 | 10 | #2,195 |
| SI Slovenia | SURS — resident population given names | 2025 | 9 | #2,736 |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Stoyan a male or female name?
- Stoyan 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 Stoyan have the most bearers?
- In Bulgaria, the national register counted about 45 thousand people named Стоян, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Stoyan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Stoyan is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 117 thousand people — even though Bulgaria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Stoyan?
- In the United States, the national register counted 362 people named Stoyan in 2020, about 1 in 919 thousand residents.
- How common is Stoyan compared with other names?
- In Bulgaria, Stoyan is the 16th most common given name of 22,906 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/stoyanThe 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, “Stoyan” — the 16th most common given name in Bulgaria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.