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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German (Bödeker) and Dutch : one of several occupational names for a cooper, from Middle Low German bodeker, bödeker, an agent derivative of bodek, budik ‘vat’, ‘barrel’. Compare Boettcher.

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