Given name & surname
Bohan
“descendant of Buadhachán”
Bohan is a surname from Irish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bohan goes back to Irish Ó Buadhacháin, meaning “descendant of Buadhachán.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Irish Ó Buadhacháin (“descendant of Buadhachán”).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2008. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bohan through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 83
- 83 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2017
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −30%
- Easing
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 354 as a first name in 2020; 2,112 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bohan’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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