Given name
Bogdana
“given by God”
Bogdana is a feminine given name. It is used in Polish.
Original RussianБогдана
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bogdana is a romanization of Богдана. Богдана goes back to a word meaning “given by God.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2006. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bogdana through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 11
- 0 boys · 11 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2023. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 6 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 215 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bogdana’s family of names
In Slovenian usage, Bogdana has a diminutive in Dana. Bogdana is a feminine form of Bogdan. In English usage, Bogdana has a conventional equivalent in the Russian form Богдана.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bogdana has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Russian roots to each of them.
Russianwhere Bogdana comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
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.
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