Bogdani

surname · Latin script

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

Bogdani is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Albania than in any other country. Recorded meaning: a surname originating as a patronymic.

rarermore common
  • ALAlbania≈1 in 3.1K(inferred from the name graph)
  • GRGreece≈1 in 116K
  • ITItaly≈1 in 446K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Albania (inferred from the name graph)

≈980 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
34 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 3.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Albania, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

BogdaniLatin(measured from records)
ΜπογδανηGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

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)

a surname originating as a patronymic

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bogdani 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 Bogdani is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AL Albania#479≈980 est.≈1 in 3.1K—Bogdani34
IT Italy—≈140 est.≈1 in 446K—Bogdani9
GR Greece—≈92 est.≈1 in 116K2Bogdani17
DE Germany—≈34 est.≈1 in 2.4M—Bogdani18
BE Belgium—191 in 617K19Bogdani3
AT Austria—≈6 est.≈1 in 1.4M—Bogdani4

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: Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). 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)

Bogdani is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian name8 spellings in the group

    Also written Богдани

  • Georgian name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Georgia

    Also written ბოგდანი

26 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)

1600170018001900Andrea Bogdani, b. 1600Pjetër Bogdani, b. 1630Jakob Bogdani, b. 1658William Bogdani, b. 1699Wanda Bogdani, b. 1851

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(measured from records)

Attested in 9 sources across 5 countries.

Official registers attesting Bogdani
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200819#49,654

Reference works 3

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 Bogdani mean, and where does it come from?
a surname originating as a patronymic Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
In which country does Bogdani have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 981 people named Bogdani in Albania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bogdani.
How common is the name Bogdani?
In Belgium, the national register counted 19 people named Bogdani in 2008, about 1 in 617 thousand residents.
How common is Bogdani compared with other names?
In Albania, Bogdani is the 479th most common surname of 16,055 surnames recorded there.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bogdani

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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, “Bogdani” — the 479th most common surname in Albania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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