Bojana
One of the rarest names on this list: fewer than 30 women in Poland carry it, and no girls have been given it this century. Slavic at root, built on the word for battle, a warrior woman.
Bojana Pronunciation
Bojana is pronounced bo-YAH-nah (/bɔˈjana/).
What Bojana means
Where Bojana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bojana comes from the old Slavic root boj, meaning battle or fight. The same root gives the masculine name Bojan, its close cognate across the South Slavic lands. So the Polish gloss lands plainly: walka, a woman made for the fight.
The root is old.
Names built on boj carry a sense of strength rather than calm. Bojana stays uncommon in Poland, and it holds no fixed date in the Catholic calendar. A girl named Bojana who turns up on a school register in Kraków often explains the name once, then never again, because the meaning does its own work.
The sense is direct. Where Katarzyna hides its meaning behind Greek, Bojana wears the Slavic word for battle in the open. Say it and you have said walka.
How many people are named Bojana
1 in 805137 women in Poland is named Bojana. 28 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7807 among female names.
Bojana as a middle name
Bojana is a first name for 28 women in Poland and a middle name for another 2, a 93/7 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 5638th, between Blu (2) and Bolanle (2).
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#5636 Blessings2
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#5637 Blu2
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#5638 Bojana2
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#5639 Bolanle2
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#5640 Bożyna2