Bogdan or Bohdan (Cyrillic: Богдан) - is a Slavic masculine name. It is derived from the Slavic words Bog/Boh (Cyrillic: Бог), meaning "god", and dan (Cyrillic: дан), meaning "given". Other names with similar meaning include South Slavic Božidar, Polish Bożydar, Greek Theodore, Hungarian (Magyar) Bogdán, Kurdish Bokan, Hebrew Nathanael and Jonathan, Latin Deodatus and French Dieudonné. Nicknames include Boguś (in Polish), Boca, Boci, Boća, Boša, Bogi. The feminine form is Bogdana or Bohdana. The mutation of 'g' into 'h' occurred in the Ukrainian, Czech, Slovak, and Belarusian languages. Polish did not participate, however, Bohdan is accepted alongside Bogdan in Poland.
[edit] Name days
- Czech: 9 November
- Bulgarian: 6 January
- Polish: 19 March, 17 July, 10 August or 9 October
- Slovak: 18 January
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[edit] Rulers of Moldavia
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- Bogdan Bogdanović, Serbian architect
- Bogdan Borusewicz, Polish politician
- Bohdan Bułakowski, Polish race walker
- Bogdan Dobrescu, Romanian boxer
- Bogdan Diklić, Serbian actor
- Bogdan Filov, Bulgarian archeologist and politician
- Bogdan Gavrilović, Serbian mathematician
- Bohdan Khmelnytsky, Ukrainian hetman
- Bogdan Lalić, Croatian chessmaster
- Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer
- Bogdan Lobonţ, Romanian footballer
- Bogdan Maglich, American physicist
- Bogdan Niculescu-Duvăz, Romanian politician
- Bogdan Olteanu, Romanian politician
- Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu, Romanian historian, philologist and politician
- Bogdan Raczynski, Polish electronic musician
- Bogdan Stelea, Romanian footballer
- Bogdan Tanjević, Montenegrin basketball coach
- Bogdan Tirnanić, Serbian journalist and essayists
- Bohdan Sláma, Czech director
- Bohdan Ulihrach, Czech tennis player
- Bohdan Warchal, Slovak violinst and dirigent
- Bohdan Stupka, Ukrainian actor
- Bohdan Warchal, Slovak violinist and dirigent
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- Bogdan group, Ukrainian automobile manufacturer
- Bogdan (bus), brand of buses made by the Bogdan group
- Bohdan, Podlaskie Voivodeship, a village in north-east Poland
- Bogdanci, town in Republic of Macedonia
- Bogdan, name of the highest peak of Sredna gora mountain in central Bulgaria
- Bogdanje, village in the Raška county, near Trstenik, Serbia
- Bogdanovci, municipality in the Vukovar-Srijem county in Croatia
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