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Surname Etymology and Meaning of BODE

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Name meanings and etymologies are often disputed. The information here is compiled from freely available sources, and no claims whatsoever are made for accuracy, either historical or etymological.

1. Dutch and German: occupational name for a messenger or representative, Dutch bode, Middle Low German bode. A bode was a medieval official with a variety of different functions.
2. German and Danish: from the North German personal name Bodo, a derivative of Old Saxon bodo ‘messenger’.
3. North German and Dutch: a topographic name from Middle Low German bode, bude ‘booth’, ‘small house’.
4. Danish: habitational name from a place named Bode.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names (2003)