Names distinctive to Bosnia and Herzegovina

The list of names unique to Bosnia and Herzegovina*

Female forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Ajla 90% 1.
2. Dragana 62% 2.
3. Nejra 99% 3.
4. Lamija 96% 5.
5. Sanela 40% 4.
6. Nermina 78% 8.
7. Bojana 29% 6.
8. Biljana 24% 7.

Male forenames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Nedim 55% 2.
2. Edin 25% 1.
3. Nermin 45% 3.
4. Enis 36% 4.
5. Senad 65% 5.
6. Asmir 78% 7.
7. Ognjen 62% 6.

Surnames

NameUniqueness Prevalence rank
1. Imamovic 95% 2.
2. Hodžić 100% 3.
3. Babic 49% 1.
4. Avdic 76% 4.
5. Alic 64% 5.
6. Mujkic 92% 7.
7. Jahic 91% 11.
8. Ibrahimovic 75% 8.
9. Bajric 87% 9.
10. Spahic 83% 10.
11. Hadžić 100% 18.
12. Muratovic 77% 12.
13. Smajlovic 89% 15.
14. Hamzic 89% 16.
15. Cengic 98% 21.
16. Mijatovic 73% 13.
17. Causevic 81% 17.
18. Mehic 88% 20.
19. Mujic 84% 19.
20. Kadric 91% 22.
21. Bozic 43% 6.
22. Memic 82% 23.
23. Bosnjak 60% 14.
24. Halilović 85% 26.
25. Zukic 90% 31.

Distinctive names in
the related** countries

CountrySimilarity
Serbia 32%
Montenegro 32%
Slovenia 19%
Albania 10%
Luxembourg 10%
Austria 10%
New Zealand 7%

*The rank of the unique name is the geometric average of the name uniqueness and the name prevalence in the respective country. Name uniqueness is measured only by the exact grapheme form (not taking into account transliterational equivalents or phonetic similarities).

** Country similarity is the correlation of the relative frequency of the names shared by two countries (as measured by cosine similarity).