Bogumiła
Built from the old Slavic roots Bóg, "God," and miła, "dear": someone dear to God. Around 54,000 Polish women carry it, but it reads as inherited now, given to only a handful of girls each year.
Bogumiła Pronunciation
Bogumiła is pronounced bo-goo-MEE-wah (/bɔguˈmiwa/).
What Bogumiła means
Where Bogumiła comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bogumiła comes from two old Slavic roots: Bóg, meaning God, and miła, meaning dear or pleasing. Put together they give the sense the name still holds, miła Bogu, dear to God. The masculine form Bogumił belongs to the same pair of roots, and at home the name softens to Bogusia.
Names like this were built to say something plain. Early Slavic Christians appear to have shaped Bogumił as a Slavic match for the Greek Theophilos, which also means loved by God, so the compound translates an older idea instead of inventing one. The meaning sits right in the parts, easy to read for anyone who knows the words.
Say it slowly. Bo-gu-mi-ła.
On an official form at the urząd the name fills its line with all four syllables and refuses to shrink, though Bogusia waits underneath for everyone close to her. What Bogumiła reports has not changed since the two roots first met: someone dear to God.
How many people are named Bogumiła
1 in 419 women in Poland is named Bogumiła. 53,817 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #180 among female names.
Bogumiła's popularity over time
17 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #548 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2016. Still the #180 name among living women, even as it slips to #548 among newborns.
Where Bogumiła is most popular
Bogumiła is most popular in Greater Poland, 89% above the national average (20 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+86%) and Masovian (+61%). It is least common in Lower Silesian and Subcarpathian, 74% and 66% below average respectively.
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Greater Poland20 girls born+89%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian10 girls born+86%
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Masovian28 girls born+61%
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Silesian15 girls born+34%
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Pomeranian8 girls born+11%
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Lublin5 girls born−1%
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Lesser Poland7 girls born−37%
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Podlaskie2 girls born−38%
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Warmian-Masurian2 girls born−43%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born−52%
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Łódź3 girls born−52%
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Subcarpathian2 girls born−66%
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Lower Silesian2 girls born−74%
Bogumiła as a middle name
Bogumiła is a first name for 53,817 women in Poland and a middle name for another 31,326, a 63/37 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 68th, between Mariola (31,537) and Kamila (31,160).
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66
32,619Władysława
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67
31,537Mariola
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6831,326Bogumiła
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69
31,160Kamila
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70
29,977Oliwia