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
Grammatical form

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

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.