Given name & surname
Bojan
“battle”
Bojan is a masculine given name. It is used in Old Czech and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
Built from Serbo-Croatian bȏj (“battle”) + -an.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bojan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 25
- 25 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2010. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 788 as a first name in 2020; 280 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bojan’s family of names
Bojan has an affectionate form in Bojanek. Bojan has a feminine form in Bojana. In German usage, Bojan has a related form in BOYAN.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bojan has relatives in 7 languages.
4 related names in 7 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Bojan
- Bojan KrkićSpanish footballer (born 1990)
- Bojan BogdanovićCroatian basketball player (born 1989)
- Bojan JokićSlovenian footballerborn 1986
- Bojan ŠaranovSerbian footballerborn 1987
- Bojan IsailovićSerbian footballerborn 1980
- Bojan KrižajSlovenian alpine skierborn 1957
- Bojan DubljevićMontenegrin basketball player (born 1991)
- Bojan AdamičSlovenian film score composer (1912–1995)
- Bojan MiovskiMacedonian association football playerborn 1999
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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