Bogdán

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/boɡdan/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Bogdán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Poland than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 77K(measured from records)
  • MDMoldova1 in 298
  • PLPoland1 in 422

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Poland (measured from records)

90,620 people, 2026

Sources
296 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 298 (inferred from the name graph)

Moldova

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bogdan in PL Poland, US United States, RO Romania and 1 more.

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

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ.

Sources 2

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bogdán counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Bogdán is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PL Poland—90,6201 in 42293KBogdan5
MD Moldova—11,2851 in 29811K—11
US United States—4,3341 in 77K4.3KBogdan296
SI Slovenia—2,0951 in 1K2.1K—13
ES Spain—1,3031 in 38K1.3KBogdan31
NO Norway—5101 in 11K1.6K—13
IS Iceland—681 in 5.2K68——
RO Romania#326———Bogdan85

90,620 people counted by dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20), 2026. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; e-services.md — living population register; SURS — resident population given names; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

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

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Bogdán is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Romanian given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, Spain, United States, Italy

    Languages: Romanian, Spanish, Italian

    Also written Bogdan

  • Ukrainian given name97 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia, Poland, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian, Polish

    Also written Богдан, Bohdan, Bogdan, Багдан, 'Bogdan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Bogdan

  • French given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Belgium, Romania, United States

    Also written Bogdan, Bogdañ

9 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Coloman Braun-Bogdan, b. 1905Zvonko Bogdan, b. 1942László Bogdán, b. 1948Veronica Irina Bogdan, b. 1959Sergey Bogdan, b. 1962Zsolt Bogdán, b. 1964László Bogdán, b. 1974Gábor Bogdán, b. 1980Dmitry Bogdan, b. 1985Ádám Bogdán, b. 1987

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalTisztelt Bogdán!Dear Bogdán, (English)
InformalTisztelt Bogdán!Hello, (English)

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 13 sources across 8 countries.

Official registers attesting Bogdán
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202612—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—12#119,651
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)202611—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—11#125,101

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Bogdán mean, and where does it come from?
Ultimately from Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ. Recorded by Wiktionary and Családnevek enciklopédiája.
How do you pronounce Bogdán?
A machine transcription gives /boɡdan/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
In which country does Bogdán have the most bearers?
In Poland, the national register counted about 91 thousand people named Bogdán, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bogdan.
Where is Bogdán most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bogdán is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 298 people — even though Poland holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bogdán?
In Poland, the national register counted 90,620 people named Bogdán in 2026, about 1 in 422 residents.
How common is Bogdán compared with other names?
In Romania, Bogdán is the 326th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

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, “Bogdán” — the 326th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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