Family name origins & meanings
- Hungarian (Bodó) : from the old secular name Bodó, a derivative of the personal name Bod.
- Polish : perhaps from a pet form of the Old Slavic personal name Ostrobod, composed of the elements ostro ‘sharp’ + bod, from bodę ‘to stab’, ‘prick’.
- Respelling of French Baudot, from a personal name derived from the Germanic root bald ‘bold’, ‘brave’.