What is the origin and or country of origin of the surname Bogdanovich?

Answer 1

This common Russian family name has the following ancestry :

answer from ancestry.com

Bogdanovich -

1. Belorussian and Ukrainian; Serbian and Croatian (Bogdanovic): patronymic from the personal name Bogdan.
2. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from Bogdany in Poland or from the various places in Belarus called Bogdanovo, Bogdanovichi, or Bogdany.

Bogdan -

1. 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 Theodoros 'gift of God' or Theodotos '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. This is also found as a Romanian name.
2. 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.
3. Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of numerous places in Belarus and Poland called Bogdany.