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Boban

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Boban has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1975. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Boban, 1982

1 in 585,000

Boban over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Boban: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Boban means

Boban is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Boban is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Boban is pronounced /bǒban/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 17 boys were recorded with the name Boban between 1975 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1977; its best national rank was #5,196 in 1977.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Boban?

Boban had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1982, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1982
1 in 585,000
6 of 3,507,638 births
Among boys only
1 in 302,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1982
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
405,219 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Boban sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1982 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 405,219 children born in 1982 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Boban. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bobans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Boban was born before 1977 — so the typical Boban is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
64.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
17
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 64.7% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Boban rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (6)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#5,196
1977

Spellings of Boban

Boban is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 41.3% against Boban's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Boban is used

Across 1910–2025, Boban was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,313,832 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Boban has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Boban around the world

Where Boban ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1965–2004
    #4,551
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1971–2002
    #606
    in 2002

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Boban by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,196
1977
Peak year
1977
6 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
17
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Boban

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

BobbBobbiCubanRubanDubanQubanBobackBobakBoboSabanOrbanJobanShabanObanBobbyleeBobbyeShubanStebanAbanLiibanBobieAabanLibanBoby

Sibling names for Boban

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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