Bogdana
A Slavic name meaning "given by god". Rare in Poland: just over 1,100 women carry it, and it has stayed exclusively a girl's name.
Bogdana Pronunciation
Bogdana is pronounced bog-DAH-nah (/bɔgˈdana/).
What Bogdana means
Where Bogdana comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bogdana is a Slavic name, and its meaning sits right in its parts. "Bog" means God, and "dan" comes from the old verb for giving. Put together, they say "given by God," or in Polish dana przez boga. Many names collect a sense over centuries; this one wears its meaning from the start.
The masculine forms are more common in Poland. Bogdan sounds familiar, and the older spelling Bohdan keeps its dawne h. Bogdana is the feminine turn of the same family, standing beside the variant Bohdanna. A girl given this name sits close to a whole set of related forms.
On a name-day list at the urząd, Bogdana appears among the native Slavic names rather than the borrowed saints. Short. Direct.
Bogdan spread well past Poland, as far as Ukraine and Bulgaria, where it stays common today. For a woman called Bogdana, the name never hid what it said: given by God.
When Bogdana celebrates name day
Bogdana appears 4 times in the Polish name day calendar, never as a main name. The first of these dates is 6 February.
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 Bogdana
1 in 19758 women in Poland is named Bogdana. 1,141 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #903 among female names.
Bogdana's popularity over time
3 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #1211 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2017. Still the #903 name among living women, even as it slips to #1211 among newborns.
Where Bogdana is most popular
Bogdana is most popular in Lubusz, 522% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by West Pomeranian (+266%) and Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+182%).
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Lubusz2 girls born+522%
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West Pomeranian2 girls born+266%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian2 girls born+182%
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Masovian6 girls born+161%
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+96%
Bogdana as a middle name
Bogdana is a first name for 1,141 women in Poland and a middle name for another 354, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 364th, between Rosa (355) and Sabrina (353).
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#362 Abigail356
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#363 Rosa355
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#364 Bogdana354
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#365 Sabrina353
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#366 Alicia349