Bohdan
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bɔhdən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bohdan is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Ukraine than in any other country, where it is the 57th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ.
- CZCzechia1 in 3.8K(measured from records)
- RORomania≈1 in 177as Bogdan
- UAUkraine≈1 in 259as Богдан
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 Bohdan 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.
- Ukraine (inferred from the name graph)
- #752 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 228 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.8K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 named Богдан, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Bogdan in PL Poland, MD Moldova, RS Serbia and 1 more and Богдан in UA Ukraine, RU Russia, CN China.
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)
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ.
Sources 1
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bohdan 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UA Ukraine | #57 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 259 | listed | Богдан | 121 |
| RO Romania | #264 | ≈120,000 est. | ≈1 in 177 | — | Bogdan | 76 |
| PL Poland | #92 | 90,620as Bogdan | 1 in 422 | 93K | Bogdan | 181 |
| RU Russia | #142 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | #62 | Богдан | 171 |
| CN China | — | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 100K | — | Богдан | 5 |
| MD Moldova | #458 | 11,285as Bogdan | 1 in 298 | 11K | Bogdan | 11 |
| RS Serbia | #125 | ≈7,200 est. | ≈1 in 980 | listed | Bogdan | 65 |
| CZ Czechia | #345 | 2,836 | 1 in 3.8K | 2.8K | Bohdan | 79 |
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); e-services.md — living population register; MVČR — living population register 2017. 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)
- Bogdan III the One-Eyedb. 1479ROnot in their usual nameVoivode of Moldavia
- Bohdan Khmelnytskyb. 1595UAUkrainian military, political and statesman, Hetman of the Zaporizhzhya Army, head of Ukraine (1648–1657) during the Hetmanship
- Józef Bohdan Zaleskib. 1802UAPolish poet (1802–1886)
- Jaroslav Rudnyckyjb. 1910CAnot in their usual nameUkrainian Canadian linguist and lexicographer
- Bohdan Stashynskyb. 1931UAKGB agent
- Bohdan Stupkab. 1941UASoviet and Ukrainian actor (1941–2012)
- Bohdan Slámab. 1967CZCzech film director and screenwriter (born 1967)
- Bohdan Bondarenkob. 1989UAUkrainian high jumper
- Bohdan Butkob. 1991UAUkrainian footballer
- Bohdan Mykhaylychenkob. 1997UAUkrainian 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)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 57 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 32K | #114 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 29K | #117 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2.8K | #321 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 1.4K | #362 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 1.4K | #359 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 84 | — |
| MD Moldova | e-services.md — living population register | — | 28 | #1,735 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 7 | #8,740 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2026 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | CZSO — 100 nejčetnějších dětských jmen (top 100 baby names 2024) | 2018 | — | #180 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
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
- How do you pronounce Bohdan?
- A machine transcription gives /bɔhdən/ (IPA) for Ukrainian.
- What does the name Bohdan mean, and where does it come from?
- Inherited from Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- 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 are other forms of the name Bohdan?
- In the etymology graph, Theodore, Bogdan and Boban are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Bohdan have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 169 thousand people named Богдан in Ukraine, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bohdan most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bohdan is densest in Czechia — about 1 in 3.8 thousand people — even though Ukraine holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bohdan?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 2,836 people named Bohdan, about 1 in 3.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Bohdan compared with other names?
- In Ukraine, Bohdan is the 57th most common given name of 85,149 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bohdan?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bohdanThe 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, “Bohdan” — the 57th most common given name in Ukraine. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.