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Boy · Old Slavic
Bogdan
Say it: bohg-DAHN
Meaning
From Slavic bog 'god' and dan 'given': 'given by God'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A Slavic calque of Greek Theodotos, used across the Slavic lands since the Middle Ages.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 619 babies given this name since 1954
- At its height in 2019, about 1 in 51,000 boys
- 30 babies in 2020
Through the ages
- The High and Late Middle Ages1100 to 1450
- The Renaissance1400 to 1600
- The Age of Revolutions1750 to 1837
- Victorian and Belle Époque1837 to 1914
- The Modern Age1880 to today
Used by
RussianUkrainianPolishSerbianCroatianBulgarianCzechSlovakRomanian
The family of the name
Other spellings: Богдан, Bohdan
| Ukrainian | Bohdan |
|---|---|
| Polish | Bogdan |
| Czech | Bohdan |
| Serbian | Bogdan |
| Croatian | Bogdan |
| Bulgarian | Bogdan |
Famous bearers
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Cossack hetman
- Bogdan I, founder of independent Moldavia
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Where this comes from
- Medieval Slavic chronicles and charters
- Calendars of saints and name days
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- Royal and noble genealogies
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
Meanings and histories are compiled from the study of names and their languages and checked by a second review.
Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.