# Bogdan (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bogdan/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | “theodore”, “gift of god” |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Bohdan |
| US babies named this | 779 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 779 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 346, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ, a calque of Ancient Greek Θεόδωρος (Theódōros, “Theodore”, literally “gift of God”).

## What it means

Bogdan is grouped under gift and god.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 15 | 5,696 |
| 2012 | 23 | 4,266 |
| 2013 | 20 | 4,641 |
| 2014 | 26 | 3,911 |
| 2015 | 28 | 3,792 |
| 2016 | 23 | 4,342 |
| 2017 | 30 | 3,597 |
| 2018 | 33 | 3,380 |
| 2019 | 36 | 3,210 |
| 2020 | 30 | 3,587 |
| 2021 | 35 | 3,309 |
| 2022 | 25 | 4,196 |
| 2023 | 28 | 3,899 |
| 2024 | 37 | 3,223 |
| 2025 | 34 | 3,387 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 3 | 4,647 |
| 2012 | 13 | 1,756 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2014 | 10 | 2,079 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,586 |
| 2016 | 26 | 1,081 |
| 2017 | 31 | 968 |
| 2018 | 36 | 851 |
| 2019 | 30 | 952 |
| 2020 | 38 | 812 |
| 2021 | 31 | 963 |
| 2022 | 38 | 825 |
| 2023 | 18 | 1,407 |
| 2024 | 12 | 1,951 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,133 |

## In other languages

- Bulgarian: Богдан
- Czech: Bohdan
- Hungarian: Bogdán
- Polish: Bogdan
- Romanian: Bogdan
- Russian: Богда́н
- Slovak: Bohdan
- Slovene: Bogdan
- Swedish: Bogdan
- Ukrainian: Богда́н

## People named Bogdan

- Bogdan Filov, Bulgarian politician and archaeologist (1883-1945)
- Bogdan I of Moldavia, first independent ruler of Moldavia
- Bogdan Musioł, East German bobsledder
- Bogdan Dotchev, Bularian football referee (1936-2017)
- Bogdan Lalić, Croatian chess player
- Bogdan Žerajić, Bosnian assassin
- Bogdan Tudor, Athletics competitor, long jumper
- Bogdan Dobrev, Bulgarian rower
- Bogdan Vaštšuk, Estonian association football player (born 1995)
- Bogdan Wenig, Baltic German and Russian painter (1837–1872)
- Bogdana Karadocheva, Bulgarian singer
- Bogdan Andone, association footballer

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.