Bohdan
Bohdan was given to 30 boys in 2025, #3,672 among boys’ names; 925 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bohdan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bohdan mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bohdan is “a transliteration of the Ukrainian male given name and surname Богдан (Bohdan).”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bohdan?
#3,672 among boys’ names, 2025
Bohdan rose from #6,038 in 2015 to #3,672 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.3 to 17.6 per million.
35 babies in 1952, the peak
Bohdan peaked in 1952, when 35 boys were given it, #1,245 among boys’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 86% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #3,672 | 17.6 |
| 2024 | 23 | #4,454 | 13.3 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,346 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 22 | #4,583 | 12.6 |
| 2021 | 16 | #5,588 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 21 | #4,552 | 12.2 |
| 2019 | 19 | #4,982 | 10.6 |
| 2018 | 24 | #4,237 | 13.2 |
| 2017 | 32 | #3,448 | 17.3 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,787 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,038 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 14 | #6,026 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 15 | #5,690 | 7.9 |
| 2012 | 20 | #4,706 | 10.5 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,292 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 24 | #4,114 | 12.5 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,469 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,554 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,229 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,534 | 9.7 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,486 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 12 | #6,177 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #6,780 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,717 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 9 | #6,984 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,513 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,075 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,212 | 3.7 |
| 1992 | 6 | #7,513 | 3.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #6,826 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,555 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,471 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,590 | 3.4 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,198 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,287 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 8 | #3,983 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,491 | 3.7 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,551 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 11 | #2,701 | 6.2 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,455 | 6.9 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,271 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 9 | #2,802 | 5.0 |
| 1965 | 12 | #2,379 | 6.5 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,313 | 3.5 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,878 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,685 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 21 | #1,781 | 9.9 |
| 1960 | 19 | #1,863 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 17 | #1,981 | 8.0 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,271 | 6.1 |
| 1957 | 18 | #1,892 | 8.3 |
| 1956 | 12 | #2,375 | 5.7 |
| 1955 | 21 | #1,687 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 28 | #1,437 | 13.7 |
| 1953 | 23 | #1,595 | 11.7 |
| 1952 | 35 | #1,245 | 18.0 |
| 1951 | 29 | #1,377 | 15.4 |
| 1950 | 22 | #1,573 | 12.3 |
| 1929 | 5 | #4,022 | 4.6 |
| 1925 | 9 | #2,953 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 5 | #4,424 | 4.4 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,373 | 4.6 |
| 1921 | 7 | #3,561 | 6.4 |
| 1919 | 6 | #3,784 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 6 | #3,772 | 5.9 |
| 1917 | 5 | #4,051 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bohdan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bohdan has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bohdan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bohdan, and how old are they?
An estimated 766 Americans named Bohdan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 9 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,823 people named Bohdan (4 women and girls, 1,819 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 680 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 6,345 babies since 1880, Bohdan is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 437 babies (6.9%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Bohdan and names like it
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- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Bohdan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bohdan alive today were born 2013-2025.
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