Bożydar
A Slavic compound of *bóg*, god, and *dar*, gift: the name says "divine gift" outright. Barely 200 men in Poland carry it, so most Poles have never met one.
Bożydar Pronunciation
Bożydar is pronounced bo-ZHIH-dahr (/bɔˈʐɨdar/).
What Bożydar means
Where Bożydar comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bożydar is a Slavic compound. It joins bóg, meaning god, with dar, meaning gift, so the name states plainly what it holds: a divine gift, dar boga. Few Polish names wear their sense so openly.
The same idea travelled under other sounds. The Greek Theodoros, familiar to Poles as Teodor, was built the same way, from theos and doron, and it too means gift of God. Bożydar is the home-grown version of that thought, assembled from Slavic roots rather than borrowed whole.
Its relatives lean on the first half. Bożena, a variant, and the diminutive Bożenka both hold onto bóg, the divine, and they have long outnumbered the fuller Bożydar in parish records and on official forms. Read a class register at a Polish school and a Bożena is likely to appear. Bożydar stays rarer.
Still, the longer name keeps the whole phrase intact. Say it and you have said dar boga, a divine gift.
How many people are named Bożydar
1 in 102626 men in Poland is named Bożydar. 208 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2174 among male names.
Bożydar's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been climbing since 2025.
Bożydar as a middle name
Bożydar is a first name for 208 men in Poland and a middle name for another 1,302, a 14/86 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 209th, between Alex (1,304) and Wit (1,260).
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#207 Andres1,326
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#208 Alex1,304
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#209 Bożydar1,302
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#210 Wit1,260
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#211 Tytus1,248