Bojan ( Serbian Cyrillic and

Macedonian Macedonian most often refers to someone or something from or related to Macedonia. Macedonian(s) may specifically refer to: People Modern * Macedonians (ethnic group), a nation and a South Slavic ethnic group primarily associated with North M ...

: Бојан; Ukrainian, Russian and

Bulgarian Cyrillic The Bulgarian Cyrillic alphabet is used to write the Bulgarian language. The Cyrillic alphabet was originally developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th – 10th century AD at the Preslav Literary School. It has been used in First Bu ...

: Боян, transcribed ''Boyan'') is a Slavic given name, derived from the Slavic noun ''boj'' "battle." The ending ''-an'' is a

suffix In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word. Common examples are case endings, which indicate the grammatical case of nouns, adjectives, and verb endings, which form the conjugation of verbs. Suffixes can carry ...

frequently found in

anthroponym Anthroponymy (also anthroponymics or anthroponomastics, from Ancient Greek ἄνθρωπος ''anthrōpos'' / 'human', and ὄνομα ''onoma'' / 'name') is the study of ''anthroponyms'', the proper names of human beings, both individual and co ...

s of Slavic origin. The feminine variant is Bojana. The name is recorded in historical sources among Serbs, Bulgarians, Czechs,

Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Ce ...

, Croats, Slovenians, Macedonians, Ukrainians and Russians. In Slovenia, it is the 18th most popular name for males, as of 2010.Število moških z imenom BOJAN: 10.544 (ali 1,0 % vseh moških)
(in Slovenian). Statistical Office of the Republic of Slovenia. The name Bojan may refer to: * Bojan Bogdanović (born 1989), Croatian basketball player * Bojan Djordjic (born 1982), Swedish footballer of Serbian descent * Bojan Enravota, 9th century Bulgarian Christian martyr and saint * Bojan Jokić (born 1986), Slovenian football player * Bojan Jorgačević (born 1982), Serbian football player * Bojan Jovanovski (born 1986), Macedonian TV personality * Bojan Križaj (born 1957), Slovenian alpine skier * Bojan Krkić (born 1990), Spanish footballer * Bojan Marović (born 1984), Montenegrin singer * Bojan Neziri (born 1982), Serbian football player *

Bojan Šarčević Bojan Šarčević (; born 1974) is a visual artist. His work includes Video art, video, installations, site-responsive architectural interventions, photographic collage, more or less abstract sculpture, and printed publications. Bojan Šarčević i ...

(born 1974), Bosnian-French visual artist * Bojan Stupica (1910–1970), Slovenian theatrical director *

Bojan Zdešar Bojan Zdešar (born November 30, 1984 in Ljubljana) is a retired male freestyle swimmer from Slovenia, who competed for his native country at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He swam in the long-distance swimming Long-distance swimming is distinguish ...

(born 1984), Slovenian freestyle swimmer *

Bojan Zulfikarpašić Bojan Zulfikarpašić ( sr-cyr, Бојан Зулфикарпашић), known professionally as Bojan Z. (born February 2, 1968) is a Serbian jazz pianist. Early life He started playing and studying piano at the age of 5 in music school "Kosta ...

(born 1968), Serbian jazz pianist

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