Bojan
A Slavic name built on the root for battle: Bojan means "warrior". Only about 120 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Bojan Pronunciation
Bojan is pronounced BO-yahn (/ˈbɔjan/).
What Bojan means
Where Bojan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bojan comes from the Slavic root boj, which means battle or fight. The same root sits inside the ordinary Polish word bój, still used for a hard-fought clash. So the short meaning, battle and warrior, points straight back to where the name began.
The oldest famous bearer is Boyan, a bard named in the East Slavic epic The Tale of Igor's Campaign, dated to around 1187. The poet there calls Boyan a singer of old, a man whose fingers ran across the strings. Bojan the fighter and Boyan the singer share one name and one root.
In Poland the form Bojan stays rare. Read down a school register in Kraków and you pass many a Jakub before one Bojan turns up. It has no fixed name-day of its own. Its meaning is plain. Bojan is the one who fights.
How many people are named Bojan
1 in 177885 men in Poland is named Bojan. 120 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3065 among male names.
Bojan as a middle name
Bojan is a first name for 120 men in Poland and a middle name for another 16, an 88/12 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 2296th, between Bob (16) and Boromir (16).
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#2294 Berhanu16
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#2295 Bob16
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#2296 Bojan16
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#2297 Boromir16
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#2298 Byron16