Bogdanov
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A transliteration of the Macedonian surname Богданов (Bogdanov)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɑɡdənɑv/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bogdanov is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Russia than in any other country. In Estonia it is the 78th most common surname.
- BGBulgaria≈1 in 3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 696K
- RURussia≈1 in 2.1Kas Богданов
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Bogdanov itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Russia (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 172 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.9K (inferred from the name graph)
≈69,000 named Богданов, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Estonia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Богданов in RU Russia, UA Ukraine, BY Belarus and 2 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)
from Bogdan, 'given by God'
Sources 1
- Russian Surnames
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Bogdanov is read(measured from records)
Bogdanov is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Russian46%
from Bogdan, 'given by God'
as a nameRussian Surnames
- Bulgarian23%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Bogdanov in Bulgarian.
- English11%
A transliteration of the Macedonian surname Богданов (Bogdanov).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bogdanov 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RU Russia | #146 | ≈69,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | — | Богданов | 172 |
| UA Ukraine | #470 | ≈8,100 est. | ≈1 in 5.4K | — | Богданов | 50 |
| BY Belarus | #161 | ≈2,700 est. | ≈1 in 3.6K | — | Богданов | 25 |
| BG Bulgaria | #106 | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 3K | — | Bogdanov | 88 |
| UZ Uzbekistan | — | ≈1,500 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Богданов | 9 |
| US United States | — | 478 | 1 in 696K | 567 | Bogdanov | 136 |
| EE Estonia | #78 | 417 | 1 in 2.9K | 417 | Богданов | 20 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanovb. 1834RURussian zoologist (1834-1896)
- Alexander Bogdanovb. 1873RURussian physician, philosopher and revolutionary (1873–1928)
- Semen Bogdanovb. 1894RUSoviet military commander (1894-1960)
- Mikhail Bogdanovb. 1914RUSoviet production designer (1914-1995)
- Anatoly Bogdanovb. 1931RUsport shooter (1931–2001)
- Michael Bogdanovb. 1938GBBritish theatre director (1938–2017)
- Vladimir Bogdanovb. 1951RURussian businessman
- Mikhail Bogdanovb. 1952RUDeputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
- Andrei Bogdanovb. 1970RURussian politician
- Anatoli Bogdanovb. 1981RURussian footballer
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 29 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 567 | #41,393 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 478 | #44,872 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 417 | #89 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 417 | #89 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 349 | #55,124 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 57 | #1,630 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Bogdanov come from?
- from Bogdan, 'given by God' Recorded by Russian Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Bogdanov?
- A machine transcription gives /bɑɡdənɑv/ (IPA) for Russian.
- What does the name Bogdanov mean?
- In English, A transliteration of the Macedonian surname Богданов (Bogdanov).
- In which country does Bogdanov have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 69 thousand people named Богданов in Russia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bogdanov most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bogdanov is densest in Estonia — about 1 in 2.9 thousand people — even though Russia holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bogdanov?
- In the United States, the national register counted 478 people named Bogdanov in 2010, about 1 in 696 thousand residents.
- How common is Bogdanov compared with other names?
- In Russia, Bogdanov is the 146th most common surname of 1,952,411 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bogdanov?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bogdanovThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bogdanov” — the 146th most common surname in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.