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Bogumił

A Slavic name built from Bóg, "god", and a root for "dear": favoured by god. It has only ever gone to boys, and roughly 10,000 Polish men carry it: meeting one stays with you.

Bogumił Pronunciation

Bogumił is pronounced bo-GOO-meew (/bɔˈgumiw/).

Alive in 2025
9,922
Newborns 2025
31
National rank
#364
Next name day
10 June
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What Bogumił means

Where Bogumił comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Bogumił is a Slavic compound, built from bóg, god, and a root meaning dear or favoured. The short meaning follows directly: favoured by god. Names shaped this way were common among the early Slavs, who folded a blessing into a single word.

The same idea traveled under a Greek label. Bogumił matches Theophilos, beloved of God, root for root, which makes it a Slavic calque of that older Greek name.

There was a real Bogumił. Bogumił of Dobrów, a medieval churchman later counted among the blessed, gave the name a patron and a fixed day on the Polish calendar.

The feminine variant is Bogumiła, and from it comes the everyday Bogusia. Short and warm. Read out from a class register, Bogusia still means, in full, a child favoured by god.

When Bogumił celebrates name day

Bogumił appears 6 times in the Polish name day calendar, 1 of them as a main name, the first on 10 June.

Next name day
10 June
Thursday in 2027
Next one in 228 days
Name days

The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.

Also celebrates

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 Bogumił

1 in 2151 men in Poland is named Bogumił. 9,922 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #364 among male names.

People with the name Bogumił 2019 → 2025
9,922 −1,290 since 2019
2020 11,116 −96
2021 10,850 −266
2022 10,584 −266
2023 10,335 −249
2024 10,158 −177
2025 9,922 −236

Bogumił's popularity over time

31 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #435 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2007. Still the #364 name among living men, even as it slips to #435 among newborns.

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31 newborns with the name Bogumił in 2025
national rank #435 that year

Where parents choose Bogumił

Bogumił is most popular in Greater Poland, 180% above the national average (58 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+71%) and Pomeranian (+34%). It is least common in West Pomeranian and Holy Cross, 75% and 63% below average respectively.

Chosen most
  • Greater Poland
    +180%
    1 in 3,711 babies
  • Kuyavian-Pomeranian
    +71%
    1 in 6,077 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +34%
    1 in 7,754 babies
Chosen least
  • West Pomeranian
    −75%
    1 in 42,213 babies
  • Holy Cross
    −63%
    1 in 27,717 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    −54%
    1 in 22,692 babies

Bogumił as a middle name

Bogumił is a first name for 9,922 men in Poland and a middle name for another 10,218, a 49/51 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 103rd, between Igor (10,687) and Seweryn (10,019).

As a first name
9,922
As a middle name
10,218
first name 49% middle name 51%
Middle-name ranking men

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