Given name & surname
Bogumil
“God”·“kind”
Bogumil is a masculine given name from Slavic. It is used in English and Serbo-Croatian.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bogumil is a romanization of Богумил. Богумил is built from elements meaning “God” and “kind”.
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Bogumil comes from Slavic, and ultimately from Slavic languages.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
Its Slavonic formation brings together bog (“god”) and mil (“grace, favour”).
Bogumil’s family of names
Bogumil has a feminine form in Bogumiła. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Bogumil has a conventional equivalent in the Greek form Βογόμιλος. Bogumil shares a linguistic root with Bohumil.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 26
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- Amadeusequivalent
- Amadeoequivalent
- Theophilusequivalent
- Theophilequivalent
- Teofilequivalent
- Teofiloequivalent
- Theofilosequivalent
- Theophileequivalent
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- Gottliebequivalent
- Amedeoequivalent
- Bohumilcognate
- Theofielequivalent
- Amédéeequivalent
- Bogomilequivalent
- Θεόφιλοςequivalent
- Amadeuszequivalent
- Teofilusequivalent
- Gotliebequivalent
- Amadioequivalent
- Amadeuequivalent
- Teófiloequivalent
- ΒογόμιλοςGreek
- Théophileequivalent
- Theofilequivalent
- Bohumilafeminine form
- Bogumiłafeminine form
People named Bogumil
- Bogumil DawisonGerman actor (1818–1872)
- Bogumil GoltzGerman humorist and satirist (1801-1870)
- Bogumil VošnjakSlovenian diplomat and legal scholar1882–1959
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
Similar names
If you love Bogumil, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
Bogumierz
>99% boys
Bogusław
“God” · “to celebrate”
>99% boys
Bořivoj
“to defend” · “warrior”
>99% boys
Bolesław
“the most glorious”
>99% boys
Dobromil
“good, right” · “kind, dear”
>99% boys
Jaromil
“born during the spring”
>99% boys
Budzisław
>99% boys
Bogdan
“god” · “to give”
>99% boys
Sibling ideas
Names that share Bogumil’s feel without repeating its first letter or rhyming with it.
A brother for Bogumil