Bogudar
Two old Slavic roots, Bog "god" and dar "gift," join into one name that reads as god's gift. Most Poles have never met a Bogudar: it went unused every year this century, while its cousin Bogdan carries the same sense on every street.
Bogudar Pronunciation
Bogudar is pronounced bo-GOO-dahr (/bɔˈgudar/).
What Bogudar means
Where Bogudar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bogudar comes from two old Slavic roots. Bog means god, and dar means gift. Put them together and the name reads as god's gift, or in Polish dar boga. This is one of the old dithematic names, the kind Slavic parents once formed by joining two meaningful words into one.
It shares its meaning with Bogdan, a far more common Polish name that also says given by God. Bogudar keeps the gift itself, the dar, right there in the second half. That makes the sense easy to hear for anyone who knows the word for a present.
Today Bogudar is rare. A child bearing it would likely be the only one in the class register, the only Bogudar read aloud at the start of a school year. The name has no fixed imieniny of its own on the standard Polish calendar. What it does hold, plainly, is its meaning: dar boga, god's gift.
When Bogudar celebrates name day
Bogudar 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 Bogudar
1 in 5336547 men in Poland is named Bogudar. 4 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #29195 among male names.
Bogudar as a middle name
Bogudar is a first name for 4 men in Poland and a middle name for another 3, a 57/43 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 6061st, between Bochdan (3) and Bogumir (3).
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#6059 Bjarne3
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#6060 Bochdan3
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#6061 Bogudar3
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#6062 Bogumir3
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#6063 Bohumil3