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Bohdan

#3,672 in 2025Boys' name

Transliteration of Богдан

Bohdan has been given to 925 babies in the U.S. since 1917. In 2025 it ranked #3,672 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1952, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Bohdan, 2025

1 in 111,000

Bohdan 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Bohdan: meaning, origin, and history

Transliteration of Богдан

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Bohdan means

Bohdan is a transliteration of Богдан.

Origin, language, and formation

Bohdan is used in English, Czech, Old Czech, Polish and Slovak.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Богдан.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Czech, Bohdan is pronounced [ˈboɦdan].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 925 boys were recorded with the name Bohdan between 1917 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1952; its best national rank was #1,245 in 1952.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,552 in 2020 to #3,672 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,038 in 2015 to #3,672 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Bohdan?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,672
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Bohdan 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Bohdan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Bohdans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Bohdan was born before 2000 — so the typical Bohdan is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
23.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
877
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 23.6% of all recorded uses (218).

Is Bohdan 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
+782
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+880
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,366
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
85.7%
Peak was 1952 (35)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,245
1952

Spellings of Bohdan

Bohdan is not the most common spelling — Jordan is, with 90.8% against Bohdan's 0.21%.

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 Bohdan is used

Across 1910–2025, Bohdan was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 268,856 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2Colorado1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 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. Bohdan has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Bohdan around the world

Where Bohdan 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
    2012–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • France
    1930–2023
    #4,612
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1997–2024
    #1,964
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1949–2008
    #467
    in 2008

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

Bohdan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,672
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 880
Best rank ever
#1,245
1952
Peak year
1952
35 that year
First recorded
1917
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
925
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Bohdan

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

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Sibling names for Bohdan

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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