Family name origins & meanings
- English : nickname from Middle English body, Old English bodig ‘body’, ‘trunk’, presumably denoting a corpulent person. In Middle English the word was also used in the sense ‘individual’, ‘person’.
- English : occupational name for a messenger, Middle English bode (Old English boda; compare Bothe), with the spelling altered to preserve a disyllabic pronunciation. This development can be clearly traced in Sussex.
- French : variant of Bodin.
- Hungarian (Bódy) : variant of Bódi (see Bodi).