Bohdan

Popularity, 1880–2025

boys named Bohdan

By the numbers

Total US births

925

Estimated living today

770

Median age today

19

Peak year

1952

Best rank

1,245th

Rank in 2025

3,658th

First recorded

1917

How old the living Bohdans are

born that year still alive today

Of the 925 babies given the name since 1917, about 770 are alive — 83 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Bohdans

• Bohdan Khmelnytsky (1595–1657)Ukrainian military, political and statesman, Hetman of the Zaporizhzhya Army, head of Ukraine (1648–1657) during the Hetmanship
• Bohdan Stupka (1941–2012)Soviet and Ukrainian actor
• Bohdan Butko (born 1991)Ukrainian footballer
• Bohdan Bondarenko (born 1989)Ukrainian high jumper
• Bohdan Shust (born 1986)Ukrainian footballer
• Bohdan Mykhaylychenko (born 1997)Ukrainian footballer
• Józef Bohdan Zaleski (1802–1886)Polish poet
• Bohdan Lepky (1872–1941)Ukrainian writer

People named Bohdan with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Bohdan is most common

• NY99
• PA12
• NJ10
• FL6
• CO5

Relative to how many babies each state records, Bohdan is most concentrated in New York (9.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1952

The most popular boys’ names the year Bohdan peaked:

• James
• Robert
• John
• Michael
• David
• William

All the names of 1952

Bohdan elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Bohdan: rank by region

In 2025, Bohdan was given 2 times or more in 10 regions of Poland.

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Bohdan among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Bohdan lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 1,156 men called Bohdan were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 28 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 24 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Bohdi

Bohdan against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Bohdan vs Bohdi

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