Entry № 1559 · Czech origin

Bohdana Bohdana — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ boh-DAH-nah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Czech
Meaning
"God's gift"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Slavic)

A name that means "god's gift".

Bohdana is the Czech and Ukrainian feminine of Bohdan — combining the Slavic bog (God) and dan (gift) — meaning "God's gift." The Greek-equivalent name is Theodora.

Bohdana is widely used in the Czech Republic and Ukraine.

God's gift. The Slavic Theodora.

The name in its native script.

Bohdana
Transliteration
Bohdana
Pronunciation
/ boʊˈdɑː.nə /
Root
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Grammatical form
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Where Bohdana stands.

Bohdana does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Bohdanas before her.

Real people

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In fiction
Bohdana
Common in Czech fiction.

Names connected to Bohdana.

The number behind Bohdana.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bohdana reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.