Bogdan

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Богдан in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 7 more and Bohdan in CZ Czechia, SK Slovakia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Bogdan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Romanian given name107K records spelled Bogdan16 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Romania, Spain, France, United States

  Languages: Romanian, Spanish, French

  Also written Bohdan, Bogdán, Bogdañ, Bogdàņ, Bögdan

• English given name75K records spelled Bogdan17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Romania

  Languages: English, German, Dutch

  Also written Bogdán, Bogdän, Bogdàn, Bogdáň, Bogdaen

• Norwegian Bokmål given name4.2K records spelled Bogdan7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Iceland, United States

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Bogdån

• Finnish given name3.2K records spelled Bogdan3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Romania, United States

  Languages: Finnish, Estonian

  Also written Bogdán

• a separate given name2.8K records spelled Bogdan2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Romania, Russia, Ukraine

  Also written Bogdán

• Swahili given name621 records spelled Bogdan6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Romania, United Kingdom, Spain

  Also written Boğdan, Bogdán

54 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Bogdan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, Slavic; 'given by God'

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• In Russian, de бог bog, dieu et дан dan, donné. (cf. Феодот) Dieudonné est son correspondant français. Fête : 8 novembre.

  as a name·Russian Names

• In German, aus dem Polnischen oder Russischen übernommener männl. Vom., der - wie auch

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

• Polish and Ukrainian: from an old Slavonic personal name composed of the elements bog god + dan gift. It is therefore semantically equivalent to THEODORE and DOROTHY as well as to MATTHEW , NATHANIEL , and JONATHAN . Cognate: Czech: Bohdan. Pet forms: Polish: Bodek, Bodzio. Feminine forms: Polish: Bogdana, Bogna, Dana. Czech: Bohdana. Ukrainian: Bohdanna. Yiddish: Badane .

  as a word

• In Russian, "God-given."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 49 years between 1954–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Bohdan Khmelnytskyb. 1595UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian military, political and statesman, Hetman of the Zaporizhzhya Army, head of Ukraine (1648–1657) during the Hetmanship
• Bogdan Filovb. 1883BGBulgarian politician and archaeologist (1883-1945)
• Bohdan Stupkab. 1941UAnot in their usual nameSoviet and Ukrainian actor (1941–2012)
• Bogdan Borusewiczb. 1949PLPolish politician (born 1949)
• Bogdan Diklićb. 1953RSSerbian actor
• Paweł Bogdan Adamowiczb. 1965PLMayor of Gdańsk (1998-2019)
• Bogdan Steleab. 1967RORomanian footballer
• Bogdan Lobonțb. 1978RORomanian footballer (born 1978)
• Bohdan Bondarenkob. 1989UAnot in their usual nameUkrainian high jumper
• Bogdan Bogdanovićb. 1992RSSerbian basketball player (born 1992)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 659 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bogdan?

We estimate roughly 131 thousand people bear Bogdan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.

In which country does Bogdan have the most bearers?

Bogdan is most frequently recorded in Ukraine, where it is most often spelled богдан.

How common is Bogdan compared with other names?

In Ukraine, Bogdan is the 55th most common given name of 84,999 given names recorded there.

Is Bogdan a male or female name?

Bogdan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Bogdan mean?

Recorded meaning: Bogdan är ett slaviskt namn, sammansatt av ord som betyder ’Gud’ och ’gåva’.