Bogodar
Two old Slavic pieces, Bog "god" and dar "gift", joined into one word: a gift of God. Both roots still make sense to a Polish speaker, but the name itself is rare enough that most Poles have never met a Bogodar.
Bogodar Pronunciation
Bogodar is pronounced bo-GO-dahr (/bɔˈgɔdar/).
What Bogodar means
Where Bogodar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bogodar breaks into two old Slavic pieces. Bog means god. Dar means gift. Together they read as gift of god, the sense recorded here as boży dar. Both parts stay legible to a Polish speaker today, since dar still names a gift and Bóg still names God.
The same pair of roots built other names. Bogdan sets them in the reverse order and lands on the same meaning. Bożydar keeps the Polish spelling of boży dar and says gift of God outright. Further off, the Greek Theodore joins theos and doron for the very same idea.
Bogodar itself is rare. A child bearing it on a class register in a Polish school would sit alone under that heading, no second Bogodar to share it. What the name states has not shifted since the early Slavs first joined the words: a gift, and the God who gives it.
When Bogodar celebrates name day
Bogodar appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 27 June.
Rarer dates. Only the most complete calendars add this name on these days. Most skip them, so hardly anyone celebrates then.
How many people are named Bogodar
1 in 7115396 men in Poland is named Bogodar. 3 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #35369 among male names.
Bogodar as a middle name
Bogodar is a first name for 3 men in Poland and a middle name for another 6, a 33/67 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 4172nd, between Bjarki (6) and Bolaji (6).
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#4170 Bi̇lal6
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#4171 Bjarki6
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#4172 Bogodar6
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#4173 Bolaji6
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#4174 Botan6