Bojan

Slavic Bojan and Bulgar Boyan (Bayan) have two different origins. Their similarity is the only source for confusion. Slavic Bojan comes from the word BOJ meaning to fight, battle or fear. There is a whole category of such Slavic names: Vojan, Milan, Goran, Zlatan, Dušan, Dragan, Miran, Zoran, Stojan, etc. All It would be extremely unlikely that ALL those names are Slavic, except Bojan. Bulgar Boyan or more accurately Bayan means rich, wealthy. Slavic Bojan also has many versions like Bojmir, Bojislav, Bojek. You can find many similar words around the world, that does not mean they are related. Bojan is not a long or complicated word to say, so it's not suprising. If you would like to give a Bulgar name that people won't mistake for a Slavic one, write it as Bajan or Bayan, as it was for Avar Khans Bayan I and Bayan II. That way there would not be confusion. The word for rich in Bayan is spelled and expressed differently than the word for fight in Bojan anyway.

In Sweden, it's a female name, originally a nickname of names ending with -borg, like Ingeborg, Frideborg, Gunborg or Valborg (old Norse names, borg meaning "stronghold"). But since those names have fallen out of fashion, the name Bojan is also really rare now, I think all the Swedish Bojans are ladies born in the 1920's-1930's.

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It's pronounced Boy-an. I think it sounds kind of funny and catchy, like a perky girl in the 1940's riding her bike and wearing sailor trousers.

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There was a Swedish actress called Bojan Westin, 1927-2013. She played in over 30 Swedish films & tv series, the most popular being the soap Rederiet (The Shipping Company).

Bojan and Bojana stem from the one and only word and that is "boj" - battle -. Bulgarians get over yourselves and stop hijacking everything. If you have once opened a book you'd have found that as Bulgars, a Turkic tribe, you have assimilated into Slavic culture. Period. Obrenovac et al stems from the personal name Obren which can be found in use still in Serbia. It comes from the verb "obresti (se)" - to find oneself -. All of them are Slavic names from Slavic words from Indo-European roots.

Bojan (pronounced: boyan) is an Avaric (Obric) name, and it stands for: "Leader of a Horde".
Avars came to South Europe together with Slavic nations in the 500-600 ADs. Together with Serbs and some Macedonian Slavic tribes, they led the attack on Constantinopole in 626 AD. They had left toponyms in the Balkans like: Obrovac, Obrenovac.

Bojan is a SLAVIC name derived either from boi (battle) or boj (fear). Both are Slavic words hence the name is of Slavic origin.

The nomadic people of Eurasia who migrated into central and eastern Europe in the 6th century were called Avars. The leader who settled the Avars in the Pannonian plain up to the early 9th century, was called Bayan (Baïan).
The Avar name Bayan in Caucasian Avar language means Victor "Behun". It also could be translated as "Bo"=Army-Country of Huns.

The name Bojan means one who is frightened of God, paganic or Christian, from root Boi wich means fear, or the one who is in battle from the root Boi wich means battle, one who is in command.

Another popular Bulgarian name, spelled Boyan or Boian.

Ditto the first comment the name Bojan (Boian, Boyan) is a Bulgarian one. It has several meanings - one is "to be afraid of God", another - "the one you should be afraid of". Usually the bearers of the name celebrate their name day on January 6 (St. Jordan).