Last name origins & meanings:
- 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.
- German and Danish: from the North German
personal name Bodo, a derivative of Old Saxon bodo
‘messenger’.
- North German and Dutch: a topographic name from
Middle Low German bōde, būde ‘booth’, ‘small
house’.
- Danish: habitational name from a place named
Bode.
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