Bohumil
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/boɦumɪl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bohumil is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.
- CZCzechia1 in 305(measured from records)
- SKSlovakia≈1 in 19K
- CYCyprus≈1 in 136K
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.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- Sources
- 97 (measured from records)
- 1 in 305 (inferred from the name graph)
35,054 people
Highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bohumil 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | #156 | 35,054 | 1 in 305 | 35K | Bohumil | 97 |
| SK Slovakia | #270 | ≈290 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Bohumil | 41 |
| US United States | — | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 1.8M | 5 | Bohumil | 76 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Bohumil | 19 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 1.3M | — | Bohumil | 16 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 765K | — | Bohumil | 10 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 136K | — | Bohumil | 4 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 705K | listed | — | 2 |
35,054 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the ee-siseministeerium-registry 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)
- Samuel Lindeb. 1771PLnot in their usual namePolish academic
- Bohumil Durdisb. 1903CZCzech weightlifter (1903–1983)
- Bohumil Steigenhöferb. 1905CZCzechoslovak ice hockey player
- Bohumil Hrabalb. 1914CZCzech writer (1914–1997)
- Bohumil Váňab. 1920CZCzechoslovak table tennis player (1920–1989)
- Bohumil Kudrnab. 1920CZCzechoslovak canoeist, speed canoeist and water slalomist (1920–1991)
- Bohumil Němečekb. 1938CZCzechoslovak boxer (1938-2010)
- Janusz Kochanowskib. 1940PLnot in their usual namePolish lawyer and diplomat (1940-2010)
- Bogumił Godfrejówb. 1976PLnot in their usual namePolish cinematographer
- Robert Mateusiakb. 1976PLnot in their usual namebadminton player
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 19 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 35K | #112 |
| CZ Czechia | naše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot | — | 18K | #125 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 18K | #125 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1917 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1914 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1923 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1918 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1915 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1927 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1925 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1908 | 5 | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Kotík, Antonín, Naše příjmení (nové vydání, 1897)
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 are other forms of the name Bohumil?
- In the etymology graph, Mijo, Milen and Milenko are forms of the same name in other languages; Miloš is a recorded short or pet form.
- How do you pronounce Bohumil?
- A machine transcription gives /boɦumɪl/ (IPA) for Czech.
- Is Bohumil a male or female name?
- Bohumil 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.
- In which country does Bohumil have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 35 thousand people named Bohumil, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bohumil.
- Where is Bohumil most common?
- Bohumil is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 305 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bohumil?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 35,054 people named Bohumil, about 1 in 305 residents.
- How common is Bohumil compared with other names?
- In Czechia, Bohumil is the 156th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Bohumil?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bohumilThe 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, “Bohumil” — the 156th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.