Bohdana
A Slavic name meaning "given by God", at home in Ukrainian families in Poland. Most Poles have never met one: fewer than a dozen girls get it in a year, though it shows up more now than a decade ago.
Bohdana Pronunciation
Bohdana is pronounced bogh-DAH-nah (/bɔɣˈdana/).
What Bohdana means
Where Bohdana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bohdana grows from Slavic soil. The name joins two old roots, one meaning God and one meaning given, so the whole reads as given by God. Ukrainian families have kept it closest, the feminine partner to Bohdan, a name their history knows well.
Say it and the family resemblance shows. There is Bogdana in Polish spelling, and Bahdan, Bogdan and Bohdan among the men, each built from the same two pieces. The Slavic name answers the Greek Theodora, which also means gift of God, so a girl called Bohdana shares her meaning with saints and empresses who never saw Kyiv.
In a Polish class register she sits between Barbara and Cecylia, one long name against the short ones. The sense stays plain across every border it crosses: dana od Boga, given by God.
When Bohdana celebrates name day
Bohdana appears 3 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 6 February.
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 Bohdana
1 in 5352 women in Poland is named Bohdana. 4,212 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #523 among female names.
Bohdana's popularity over time
9 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #728 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021. Still the #523 name among living women, even as it slips to #728 among newborns.
Where Bohdana is most popular
Bohdana is most popular in Łódź, 241% above the national average (3 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+83%) and Masovian (+63%).
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Łódź3 girls born+241%
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+83%
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Masovian4 girls born+63%
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Greater Poland2 girls born+34%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born+27%
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Silesian2 girls born+27%
Bohdana as a middle name
Bohdana is a first name for 4,212 women in Poland and a middle name for another 31, a 99/1 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1253rd, between Anabella (31) and Delia (31).
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#1251 Alexia31
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#1252 Anabella31
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#1253 Bohdana31
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#1254 Delia31
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#1255 Florencja31