Bohdan

given name · Ukrainian · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Bohdan is a given name, most frequently recorded in Ukraine, where it is the 55th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Ukrainian and Polish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ.

rarermore common
  • UAUkraine1 in 247◐
  • PLPoland1 in 422
  • RSSerbia1 in 849

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈131K ●

across 13 countries

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
206 ●

1.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 298 ◐

Moldova

Spellings & scripts●

БогданCyrillic · Ukrainian●914K records
BogdanLatin · Polish●500K records
ᲑოგდანGeorgian · Georgian●151 records
ԲոգդանArmenian · Armenian●7 records
บ๊อกดานThai · Thai●4 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bogdan in PL Poland, US United States, HR Croatia and 10 more and Богдан in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and 7 more.

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●

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ.

Sources 1

Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Bohdan is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
UA Ukraine#551,278,4201.4M rec.—listedБогдан102
RU Russia#136420,093184K rec.—#62Богдан153
PL Poland#11090,620△14K rec.1 in 42293KBogdan168
KZ Kazakhstan#52415,12012K rec.1 in 1.3K15KБогдан44
TR Türkiye—11,630626 rec.——Богдан8
MD Moldova—11,285△227 rec.1 in 29811K—10
HR Croatia#4459,62313K rec.—3.4KBogdan68
US United States—4,33021K rec.1 in 77K4.3KBogdan206
RO Romania#2484,0653K rec.——Bogdan74
BG Bulgaria#3313,879922 rec.——Bogdan79
RS Serbia#1293,7811.9K rec.—listedBogdan56
KG Kyrgyzstan#9543,408332 rec.——Богдан17

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Ukrainian220K52%
  • Polish132K31%
  • Russian28K7%
  • Czech16K4%
  • English9.2K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Ukrainian220,00652%
Polish132,10331%
Russian28,4817%
Czech16,0244%
English9,2032%

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◐

Bohdan is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name13K records spelled Bohdan6 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Bohdán

  • Finnish given name1.4K records spelled Bohdan7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Estonia, Slovenia, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

    Also written Bogdàn, Bogdân, Bogdän, Bohdán

  • Croatian given name387 records spelled Bohdan8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, United States, Croatia, Türkiye

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian

    Also written Бохдан

35 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.

Over time●

01020304019201940196019802000202035 · 1952

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Bohdan in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1917–2025
Yearrecords
19175
19186
19196
19217
19225
19245
19259
19295
195022
195129
195235
195323
195428
195521
195612
195718
195813
195917
196019
196121
196210
19639
19647
196512
19669
19677
196812
196911
19708
19726
19758
197611
19776
19806
19825
19836
19865
19926
19967
19995
20008
20019
20028
200310
200412
200519
200620
200717
200821
200913
201024
201113
201220
201315
201414
201514
201628
201732
201824
201919
202021
202116
202222
202311
202423
202530

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 66 years between 1917–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Bogdan III the One-Eyed, b. 1479Bohdan Khmelnytsky, b. 1595Józef Bohdan Zaleski, b. 1802Jaroslav Rudnyckyj, b. 1910Bohdan Stashynsky, b. 1931Bohdan Stupka, b. 1941Bohdan Sláma, b. 1967Bohdan Bondarenko, b. 1989Bohdan Butko, b. 1991Bohdan Mykhaylychenko, b. 1997

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●

Attested in 56 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Bohdan
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)202632K#114
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—29K#117
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2.8K#321
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—2.7K#896
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.8K#8,064
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—1.4K#362
CZ CzechiaKdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end)—1.4K#359
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.2K#2,607
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20261K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1K#3,041
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026963—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—759#1,708

Reference works 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 233 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Bohdan?
We estimate roughly 131 thousand people bear Bohdan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Bohdan have the most bearers?
Bohdan is most frequently recorded in Ukraine, where it is most often spelled богдан.
How common is Bohdan compared with other names?
In Ukraine, Bohdan is the 55th most common given name of 84,999 given names recorded there.
Is Bohdan a male or female name?
Bohdan 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 Bohdan mean?
Recorded meaning: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bohdan” — the 55th most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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