Bodin

Where Bodin comes from

* As an English and French surname of Norman origin, from Old French Bodin, a pet form of Bodo, borrowed from Germanic names containing the element *budô (“messenger”). Compare Beaudin. * As a Swedish surname, from the noun bod (“small hut”), compare Bodeen, Boden. * As a German surname, related to sense 1 above, and also from the place Boddin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
— Wiktionary's entry for Bodin
Along the way
  1. 2002
    First appearance
    #8,456 among boys, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #3,036
    40 babies named Bodin — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • An unknown-gender given name.
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.