Todor ( Bulgarian, Macedonian, and ) is a Bulgarian, Macedonian and Serbian

given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...

, a local rendering of the name Theodore. The Hungarian form of the name is rendered similarly as ''Tódor''. It is one of the most common names in Bulgarian villages. As a form of the name Theodore, ''Todor'' also ultimately comes from the Greek Θεόδωρος (''Theodoros''), signifying "gift of god", from θεός (''theos'') "god" and δῶρον (''doron'') "gift". Slavic equivalents bearing a similar meaning are '' Bozhidar'' and ''

Bogdan Bogdan (Cyrillic: Богдан) is a Slavic masculine name that appears in the South Slavic languages and in Polish, Romanian and Moldovan. It is derived from the Slavic words ''Bog'' (Cyrillic: Бог), meaning 'god', and ''dan'' (Cyrillic: ...

''. The name Todd is similar too but has different meaning. The Bulgarian diminutives of ''Todor'' are Тошко (''Toshko''), Тошо (''Tosho'') and Тоше (''Toshe'') and the Macedonian diminutive is Тоше (''Toše'') and Тодорче (''Todorče'').

Notable people

* Todor Aleksandrov (1881–1924), Bulgarian revolutionary, army officer, politician and teacher * Todor Batkov (born 1958), Bulgarian football club president * Todor Burmov (1834–1906), Prime Minister of Bulgaria * Todor Diev (1934–1995), Bulgarian footballer * Todor Gečevski (born 1977), Macedonian basketball player * Todor Ivanchov (1858–1906), Bulgarian prime minister * Todor Kableshkov (1851–1886), Bulgarian revolutionary * Tódor Kármán (1881–1963), Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer, and physicist * Todor Kolev (disambiguation) * Todor Manojlović (1883–1968), Serbian writer * Todor Panitsa (1879–1925), Bulgarian revolutionary * Todor "Toše" Proeski (1981–2007), Macedonian singer songwriter * Todor Skalovski (1909–2004), Macedonian composer, chorus and orchestra conductor * Todor Stoykov (born 1977), Bulgarian professional basketball player * Todor Todorov (disambiguation) * Todor Veselinović (1930–2017), Serbian footballer and coach * Todor Zhivkov (1911–1998), Bulgarian communist statesman

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