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Bogdan

#3,386 in 2025Boys' name

Gift of God

Bogdan has been given to 779 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #3,386 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Bogdan, 2025

1 in 97,500

Bogdan over time, 1880–2025

Boys
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bogdan: meaning, origin, and history

Gift of God

Slavic languages

What Bogdan means

Bogdan means “gift of God”.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

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

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Bogdan (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Bogdan is used in English, Old Slovak, Polish, Romanian and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Slavic languages.

Bogdan comes through Proto-Slavic *Bogъdanъ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Θεόδωρος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Bogdan is pronounced /ˈbɔɡ.dan/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 779 boys were recorded with the name Bogdan between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,928 in 1968.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,584 in 2020 to #3,386 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,791 in 2015 to #3,386 in 2025.

How common is Bogdan?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 50,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,386
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bogdan sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bogdan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bogdans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bogdan was born before 2012 — so the typical Bogdan is around 13 today.

Median birth year
2012
About 13 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
77.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
779
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.0% of all recorded uses (249).

Is Bogdan rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−165
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+198
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+405
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.21×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
91.9%
Peak was 2024 (37)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,928
1968

Spellings of Bogdan

Bogdan is not the most common spelling — Jordan is, with 49.6% against Bogdan's 0.10%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Bogdan is used

Across 1910–2025, Bogdan was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 389,312 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Oregon1 in —
  6. 6Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Bogdan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bogdan around the world

Where Bogdan ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2007–2025
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2018
    #704
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2002–2025
    #402
    in 2025
  • France
    1925–2025
    #1,362
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #483
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,698
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1945–2006
    #657
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Bogdan by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,386
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 198
Best rank ever
#2,928
1968
Peak year
2024
37 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
779
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Bogdan

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Bogdan

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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