Given name
Bohumil
“beloved of God”
Bohumil is a masculine given name from Old Czech. It is used in Czech and Slovak.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Bohumil goes back to Old Church Slavonic Bogumil, meaning “beloved of God.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Old Czech Bohumil, built from Czech bohu + milý.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1908. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Bohumil through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 56
- 56 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1914
- 8 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 boys is 5 in 1927. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Bohumil’s family of names
In Slovak usage, Bohumil has a diminutive in MILKO. Bohumil shares a linguistic root with Bogumil. In Czech usage, Bohumil has a conventional equivalent in the French form Amédée.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Bohumil has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Proto-Slavic roots to each of them.
10 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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
- Bogomilequivalent
- Θεόφιλοςequivalent
- Amadeuszequivalent
- Teofilusequivalent
- Gotliebequivalent
- Amadioequivalent
- Amadeuequivalent
- Teófiloequivalent
- ΒογόμιλοςGreek
- BogumiłPolish
- Bohumilafeminine form · Czech
- AmédéeFrench
- Bogumilcognate
- Théophileequivalent
- Theofilequivalent
- Theofielequivalent
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Bohumil
- Bohumil HrabalCzech writer (1914–1997)
- Bohumil KubištaCzech graphic, painter and art reviewer (1884–1918)
- Bohumil NěmečekCzechoslovak boxer (1938-2010)
- Bohumil KudrnaCzechoslovak canoeist, speed canoeist and water slalomist (1920–1991)
- Bohumil DurdisCzech weightlifter (1903–1983)
- Bohumil ModrýCzechoslovak ice hockey player (1916–1963)
- Bohumil ŘíhaCzechoslovak author and children's book writer (1907–1987)
- Bohumil VeselýCzech footballerborn 1945
- Bohumil KafkaCzech sculptor and university educator (1878–1942)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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