Bahdan
A Slavic name meaning "given by god," close kin to the far more common Bogdan. Only about 300 men in Poland carry it, and recent years have gone by without a single newborn given the name.
Bahdan Pronunciation
Bahdan is pronounced BAHGH-dahn (/ˈbaɣdan/).
What Bahdan means
Where Bahdan comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bahdan grows from Slavic roots, from bog, meaning god, and dan, meaning given. The short meaning is plain: given by God, or in Polish, dany od boga. It stands beside its more familiar cousins bohdan and bogdan, the same name dressed in different spelling.
The idea behind the name is old. Bahdan works as a Slavic answer to the Greek Theodoros, which also means gift of God. One bearer fixed the form in history: Bohdan Khmelnytsky, the seventeenth-century Cossack hetman whose name still marks streets and squares. A child called Bahdan shares that meaning without inheriting the war.
The name crosses over easily. Its feminine forms, bohdana and bogdana, carry the same promise of a gift given. On a name-day, a Bahdan might find his imieniny shared with the Bogdans in the room. Whatever the spelling, the meaning holds: dany od boga, given by God.
How many people are named Bahdan
1 in 70918 men in Poland is named Bahdan. 301 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1740 among male names.
Bahdan's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.