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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Americanized form of German Büdinger, a habitational name for someone from Büdingen in Hesse, so named with the personal name Bodo or Budo + the suffix -inge(n) which denotes belonging, i.e. ‘the people or followers of a man called Bodo’. Today the surname is common around Darmstadt.
  • Adam Büdinger was a German-speaking emigrant to PA from Alsace. George Michael Bedinger was born in York Co., PA, in 1756, and was an early settler in KY.

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