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Bojan

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Bojan has been given to 25 babies in the U.S. since 2003. 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 2010, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Bojan, 2012

1 in 732,000

Bojan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bojan: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bojan means

Bojan is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Bojan is used in Old Czech and Serbo-Croatian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Old Czech, Bojan is pronounced /ˈbojan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 25 boys were recorded with the name Bojan between 2003 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2010; its best national rank was #8,902 in 2010.

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 Bojan?

Bojan had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among boys only
1 in 379,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bojan 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 2012 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 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bojan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bojans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bojan was born before 2010 — so the typical Bojan is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
25
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.0% of all recorded uses (13).

Is Bojan 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 2010 (8)
Years since peak
15
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,902
2010

Spellings of Bojan

Bojan is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 49.0% against Bojan'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.

Bojan around the world

Where Bojan 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
    1972–2013
    #4,471
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1949–2007
    #680
    in 2007

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.

Bojan 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
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Best rank ever
#8,902
2010
Peak year
2010
8 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
25
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Bojan

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

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Sibling names for Bojan

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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