Bogdanna
Just 63 women in Poland carry it, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000. A Slavic name meaning "given by God", it stands as the feminine counterpart to Bogdan.
Bogdanna Pronunciation
Bogdanna is pronounced bog-DAHN-nah (/bɔgˈdanna/).
What Bogdanna means
Where Bogdanna comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bogdanna comes from Slavic roots. Bog means "god" and dan means "given," so the name reads as "given by God," or in Polish dana przez Boga. The doubled n marks it as a fuller spelling of Bogdana, the more common feminine form. The masculine Bogdan holds the same two pieces exactly.
The pairing of bog and dan matches the Greek name Theodoros, "gift of God." Medieval scribes in Slavic lands sometimes used Bogdan to render Greek Theodotos, treating one name as a native mirror of the other. The Slavic form answered a Greek idea with home-grown words.
For a long time the name stayed mostly masculine. Bogdana and Bogdanna grew as feminine forms later. On a Polish class register today you might find one Bogdana among many Zuzannas, the older word standing apart.
The meaning has held steady. Bogdanna still says "given by God." Whether written with one n or two, the name keeps its two small parts: bog and dan.
How many people are named Bogdanna
1 in 357839 women in Poland is named Bogdanna. 63 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4600 among female names.
Bogdanna as a middle name
Bogdanna is a first name for 63 women in Poland and a middle name for another 5, a 93/7 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 3523rd, between Blandine (5) and Bohdanna (5).
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#3521 Bindu5
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#3522 Blandine5
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#3523 Bogdanna5
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#3524 Bohdanna5
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#3525 Borzyna5