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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Alternative spelling of Russian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian Bogdanov, a patronymic from the personal name Bogdan meaning ‘gift of God’. Among the Orthodox it was sometimes used to denote an illegitimate child or foundling.
  • Jewish (from Belarus) : habitational name for someone from any of the various places in Belarus called Bogdanovo or Bogdany.

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