Bogdan (name)

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Bogdan is a male given name of Slavic origin and a family name .

Origin and meaning

The name etymologically means 'gift of God, given by God', ( Cyrillic : Богдан) with Bog - God and dan - gift, and is thus a typical theophore , a name of religious origin, like the synonymous names Theodor and Dorothea , Matthias / Matthäus , Jonathan , Nathan (iel), Donatella , Isidor , Deodato and many others.

The name of the city of Baghdad is also based on this etymology.

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Name bearer

First name

A name

family name

literature

  • Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Bogdan . In: Duden - The great first name dictionary . 3. Edition. Bibliographer. Institut AG, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-06083-2 (also: Duden - The large first name dictionary. 5th edition 2007 with ISBN 978-3-411-04945-5 ).

Individual evidence

  1. Bogdan on behindthename.com (Engl.)

See also