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Боян

“fight”

Боян (Boján) is a masculine given name. It is used in Bulgarian and Pannonian Rusyn.

Bulgarian and Russian and Ukrainian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Bojan.

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Meaning & origin

What it means

Боян goes back to a word meaning “fight.”

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How it developed

Built from Bulgarian бой (“fight”) + -а́н.

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Боян’s family of names

In Bulgarian usage, Боян has a diminutive in Боя́нчо. In Bulgarian usage, Боян has a conventional equivalent in the German form Bojan. In Pannonian Rusyn usage, Боян can be written in the Roman alphabet as Bojan.

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Around the world

Боян has relatives in 3 languages.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Боя́нчоdiminutive · Bulgarian

Spellings & scripts 4

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

Across languages 1

Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.

Boyanequivalent

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