Last name origins & meanings:
- Polish, Slovak, Slovenian (Prekmurje, i.e. easternmost
Slovenia), and Serbian: from the common Slavic personal name
Bogdan, bohdan composed of the elements Bog ‘God’ + dan
‘gift’. This was not a Christian name sanctioned by the Orthodox
Church, but was common as a familiar vernacular name, equivalent to
Greek Theodōros ‘gift of God’ (see Theodore) or
Theodōtos ‘given by God’. As an American surname, it may
also be a shortened form of any of numerous other Slavic surnames
formed from this personal name.
- Hungarian (Bogdán): habitational name
for someone from any of numerous places called Bogdány, in
Abaúj, Pest, Szabolcs, and Veszprém counties, or in
Máramaros, now in Romania.
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of numerous places in Belarus and Poland
called Bogdany.
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