# Bohumil (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/bohumil/  
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 | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 56 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 56 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1908 | 5 | 1,399 |
| 1914 | 8 | 2,475 |
| 1915 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 1917 | 8 | 2,984 |
| 1918 | 6 | 3,774 |
| 1919 | 7 | 3,436 |
| 1923 | 6 | 3,864 |
| 1925 | 5 | 4,271 |
| 1927 | 5 | 4,268 |

## People named Bohumil

- Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer (1914–1997)
- Bohumil Kubišta, Czech graphic, painter and art reviewer (1884–1918)
- Bohumil Němeček, Czechoslovak boxer (1938-2010)
- Bohumil Kudrna, Czechoslovak canoeist, speed canoeist and water slalomist (1920–1991)
- Bohumil Modrý, Czechoslovak ice hockey player (1916–1963)
- Bohumil Durdis, Czech weightlifter (1903–1983)
- Bohumil Říha, Czechoslovak author and children's book writer (1907–1987)
- Bohumil Veselý, Czech footballer
- Bohumil Kafka, Czech sculptor and university educator (1878–1942)
- Bohumil Janoušek, Czechoslovak rower
- Bohumil Váňa, Czechoslovak table tennis player (1920–1989)
- Bohumil Kubát, Czechoslovak wrestler (1935–2016)

## 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.