Bohumil is a
Slavic male given name. Means "favoured by God" from the Slavic elements bog ''god'' and mil ''favour''. Pronounced ''baw-huw-MIL''. Nicknames are Bob, Bobby, Bohouš, Bohoušek, Bohuš, Mila, Milek, Bogie, Boga, Bozha. Another forms are
Bogumił, Bogomil, Bogolyub. Feminine version is Bohumila, Bogumiła, Bogumila and Bogomila.
Name Days
*Czech: ''3 October''
*Slovak: ''3 March''
*Polish: ''13 January'', ''18 January'', ''26 February'', ''10 June'' or ''3 November''
Famous bearers
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Bogumilus, Archbishop of Gniezno and a Camaldolese monk
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Bohumil Makovsky, Czech American band leader
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Bohumil Hrabal, Czech writer
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Bohumil Brhel, Czech speedway rider
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Bohumil Mořkovský, Czech gymnast
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Bohumil Kudrna
Bohumil Kudrna (15 March 1920 – 11 February 1991) was a Czechoslovak flatwater and slalom canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and the early 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals with Jan Brzák-Felix in the C-2 1 ...
, Czechoslovak flatwater canoer
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Bohumil Janoušek, Czech rower
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Bohumil Golián
Bohumil Golian (25 March 1931 – 11 January 2012) was a Slovak volleyball player who competed for Czechoslovakia in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1968 Summer Olympics. He was born in Moštenica and died in Bratislava
Bratislava ...
, Slovak former volleyball player
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Bohumil Němeček, Czechoslovak welterweight boxer
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Bohumil Kafka, Czech sculptor and pedagogue
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Bohumil Shimek
Bohumil Shimek (June 25, 1861 – January 30, 1937) was an American naturalist, conservationist, and a professor at the University of Iowa. The Shimek State Forest in Iowa is named after him.
Life Family and early life
Shimek was born on a farm ne ...
, Naturalist, conservationist and professor
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Bohumil Mathesius
Bohumil Mathesius (July 14, 1888 – June 2, 1952) was a Czech poet, translator, publicist and literary scientist – expert on Russian literature. He was a professor at the Faculty of Arts of the Charles University in Prague. His cousin was V ...
, Czech poet, translator, publicist and literary scientist
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Bohumil Stasa Bohumil is a Slavic male given name. Means "favoured by God" from the Slavic elements bog ''god'' and mil ''favour''. Pronounced ''baw-huw-MIL''. Nicknames are Bob, Bobby, Bohouš, Bohoušek, Bohuš, Mila, Milek, Bogie, Boga, Bozha. Another forms a ...
, Former Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
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Bohumil Modrý
Bohumil Modrý (24 September 1916 – 21 July 1963) was a goaltender for the Czechoslovakia men's national ice hockey team which won the silver medal at the 1948 Olympics and the 2 gold medals - at the 1947 World Championship and at the 1 ...
, Czech ice hockey player
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Bohumil Kubišta, Czech painter and art critic
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Bohumil Veselý, Czech footballer
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Bohumil Kučera
Bohumil Kučera (March 22, 1874 in Semily – April 16, 1921 in Prague) was a Czech physicist. Biography
Kučera studied physics at the Charles University in Prague and was the first scientist in Czech lands to examine the newly discovered effect ...
, Czech physicist
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Bohumil Müller
Bohumil Müller (30 June 1915 – 7 November 1987) was a religious leader of Jehovah's Witnesses in Czechoslovakia during World War II and the communist period, when their activities were banned by the Nazis and later by the communists. He spent ...
, An underground leader
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Bohumil Durdis, Czech weightlifter
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Bohumil Cepák, Czech former handball player
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Bohumil Doležal, Czech literary critic
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Bohumil Laušman, Czech social Democratic
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Bogumił Kobiela, Polish film actor
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Bohumila Kapplová, Czech Olympic canoer
See also
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Slavic names
Given names originating from the Slavic languages are most common in Slavic countries.
The main types of Slavic names:
* Two-basic names, often ending in mir/měr (''Ostromir/měr'', ''Tihomir/měr'', '' Němir/měr''), *voldъ (''Vsevolod'', ...
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Bogomil (name)
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Bogomilism
External links
Bohumil -> Behind the NameBohumil -> E-Svatek
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