Bogdan Family History

Polish, Rusyn, Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian, and Romanian; Ukrainian (standard transliteration Bohdan): from the common Slavic personal name Bogdan composed of the elements Bog ‘God’ + dan ‘given’ and thus equivalent to Greek Theodōtos ‘given by God’. In North America, this surname may also be a shortened form of any of Slavic patronymics from this personal name e.g. Serbian and Croatian Bogdanić and Bogdanović (see Bogdanovic). Compare Bogden and Bogdon.

Hungarian (Bogdán): habitational name for someone from any of the places called Bogdány in Abaúj, Pest, Szabolcs, and Veszprém counties or in Máramaros, now in Romania. It is also found in Slovakia where it is also spelled Bogdáň and Bogdaň.

Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of numerous places in Belarus and Poland called Bogdany.