Bogumił
A Slavic name built from Bóg, "god", and a root for "dear": favoured by god. It has only ever gone to boys, and roughly 10,000 Polish men carry it: meeting one stays with you.
Bogumił Pronunciation
Bogumił is pronounced bo-GOO-meew (/bɔˈgumiw/).
What Bogumił means
Where Bogumił comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Bogumił is a Slavic compound, built from bóg, god, and a root meaning dear or favoured. The short meaning follows directly: favoured by god. Names shaped this way were common among the early Slavs, who folded a blessing into a single word.
The same idea traveled under a Greek label. Bogumił matches Theophilos, beloved of God, root for root, which makes it a Slavic calque of that older Greek name.
There was a real Bogumił. Bogumił of Dobrów, a medieval churchman later counted among the blessed, gave the name a patron and a fixed day on the Polish calendar.
The feminine variant is Bogumiła, and from it comes the everyday Bogusia. Short and warm. Read out from a class register, Bogusia still means, in full, a child favoured by god.
How many people are named Bogumił
1 in 2151 men in Poland is named Bogumił. 9,922 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #364 among male names.
Bogumił's popularity over time
31 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #435 among newborns. It is making a comeback after a low in 2007. Still the #364 name among living men, even as it slips to #435 among newborns.
Where Bogumił is most popular
Bogumił is most popular in Greater Poland, 180% above the national average (58 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Kuyavian-Pomeranian (+71%) and Pomeranian (+34%). It is least common in West Pomeranian and Świętokrzyskie, 75% and 63% below average respectively.
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Greater Poland58 boys born+180%
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Kuyavian-Pomeranian18 boys born+71%
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Pomeranian19 boys born+34%
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Łódź16 boys born+31%
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Masovian38 boys born+11%
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Podlaskie7 boys born+11%
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Lublin9 boys born−9%
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Subcarpathian9 boys born−22%
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Lower Silesian10 boys born−34%
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Lesser Poland10 boys born−54%
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Silesian10 boys born−54%
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Świętokrzyskie2 boys born−63%
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West Pomeranian2 boys born−75%
Bogumił as a middle name
Bogumił is a first name for 9,922 men in Poland and a middle name for another 10,218, a 49/51 split — almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 103rd, between Igor (10,687) and Seweryn (10,019).
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101
11,398Wincenty
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102
10,687Igor
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10310,218Bogumił
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104
10,019Seweryn
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105
9,867Miłosz