Entry № 1557 · Other origin

Bogumila Bogumila — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ boh-goo-MEE-wah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Other
Meaning
"Dear to God"
Syllables
4
First recorded
Medieval (Polish)

A name that means "dear to god".

Bogumila is from the Polish Bogumiła — Bóg (God) + miła (dear, gracious) — dear to God. Bogumila is one of the Polish feminine names — central to traditional Polish Slavic Christian heritage. Notable bearer: Blessed Bogumiła (Bogumiła of Dobrów, c.

Dear to God (Polish-Slavic).

The name in its native script.

Bogumiła
Transliteration
Bogumiła
Pronunciation
/ ˌboʊ.ɡuːˈmiː.wə /
Root
Grammatical form

What Bogumila is built from.

Bogumila is a compound name. Its parts are bogŭ + milŭ — each an attested element with a recorded meaning of its own.

bogŭ
Slavic
“god”
milŭ
Slavic
“dear, gracious”

Where Bogumila stands.

Bogumila 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.

Bogumilas before her.

Real people

In fiction
Bogumiła (Reymont)
Reymont's Chłopi Polish peasant heroine 1904-09 Nobel 1924.
1904

Names connected to Bogumila.

The number behind Bogumila.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Bogumila reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.