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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Ukrainian : occupational name for a cooper, from bodnja ‘tub’.
  • Polish and Slovak (Bodnár) : from Low German, a borrowing of either Böddener ‘cooper’ or Bodner ‘cottager’.
  • Hungarian (Bodnár) : occupational name from the Slavic loanword bodnár ‘cooper’, of German origin.

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