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Last name origins & meanings:

  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 bōde, būde ‘booth’, ‘small house’.
  4. Danish: habitational name from a place named Bode.
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