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.
When Bogumiła celebrates name day
Bogumiła appears 5 times in the Polish name day calendar, 2 of them as a main name, the first on 13 January.
The days Polish calendars list this name on. By custom you celebrate one of them, usually the first after your birthday.
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 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 parents choose Bogumiła
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 Poland
+89%1 in 10,762 babies
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian
+86%1 in 10,938 babies
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Masovian
+61%1 in 12,652 babies
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Lower Silesian
−74%1 in 78,567 babies
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Subcarpathian
−66%1 in 60,283 babies
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West Pomeranian
−52%1 in 42,213 babies
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Greater Poland+89% 20 born1 in 10,762 babies+89%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian+86% 10 born1 in 10,938 babies+86%
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Masovian+61% 28 born1 in 12,652 babies+61%
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Silesian+34% 15 born1 in 15,172 babies+34%
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Pomeranian+11% 8 born1 in 18,415 babies+11%
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Lublin−1% 5 born1 in 20,535 babies−1%
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Lesser Poland−37% 7 born1 in 32,417 babies−37%
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Podlaskie−38% 2 born1 in 32,893 babies−38%
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Warmian-Masurian−43% 2 born1 in 35,897 babies−43%
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West Pomeranian−52% 2 born1 in 42,213 babies−52%
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Łódź−52% 3 born1 in 42,239 babies−52%
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Subcarpathian−66% 2 born1 in 60,283 babies−66%
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Lower Silesian−74% 2 born1 in 78,567 babies−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 Władysława32,619
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#67 Mariola31,537
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#68 Bogumiła31,326
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#69 Kamila31,160
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#70 Oliwia29,977