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Last name origins & meanings:

  1. Ukrainian: occupational name for a cooper, from bodnja ‘tub’.
  2. Polish and Slovak (Bodnár): from Low German, a borrowing of either Böddener ‘cooper’ or Bodner ‘cottager’.
  3. Hungarian (Bodnár): occupational name from the Slavic loanword bodnár ‘cooper’, of German origin.