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Богдан
“God”·“given”
Богдан (Bogdan) is a masculine given name from Proto-Slavic. It is used in Russian, Ukrainian, Macedonian, and Serbo-Croatian.
Bulgarian and Macedonian and Russian and Serbian and Serbo-Croatian and Ukrainian and rue and unknownWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Bogdan.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Богдан is built from elements meaning “God” and “given”.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Богдан’s family of names
In Russian usage, Богдан has a conventional equivalent in the German form Bogdan. In Macedonian usage, Богдан can be written in the Roman alphabet as Bogdan. In Russian usage, Богдан has a transliteration in Bogdan.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Богдан has relatives in 13 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
11 related names in 13 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 5
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 5
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 5
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Богдан
- Bohdan KhmelnytskyUkrainian military, political and statesman, Hetman of the Zaporizhzhya Army, head of Ukraine (1648–1657) during the Hetmanship1595–1657
- Bogdan BogdanovićSerbian basketball player (born 1992)
- Bohdan StupkaSoviet and Ukrainian actor (1941–2012)
- Bogdan FilovBulgarian politician and archaeologist (1883-1945)
- Bohdan BondarenkoUkrainian high jumperborn 1989
- Bohdan ButkoUkrainian footballerborn 1991
- Bohdan ShustUkrainian footballer (born 1986)
- Bogdan Petriceicu HasdeuRomanian writer and philologist (1838–1907)
- Bohdan LepkyUkrainian writer1872–1941
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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