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Updated June 9, 2019

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’.

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