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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Hungarian (Bódi) : from a short form of Bódizsár, a variant of the personal name Boldizsár, Hungarian form of Balthazar.
  • Hungarian (Bódi) : nickname from bódi ‘fat’, ‘rotund’, or from the same word in the sense ‘mad’, ‘crazy’.
  • Hungarian (Bódi) : written Bodi, possibly a habitational name for someone from a place called Bod in Heves county.

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