How common is the surname Boddie?

3,706 people in the United States had the surname Boddie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,310 Americans. It ranked 8,841st of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Boddie getting more or less common?

More common. 3,458 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,706 in 2010, up 7.2%.

The surname Boddie

A surname, carried by 3,706 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B300

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Boddie is more common than 94.6% of them.

Origin

Scottish surname, variant of Boddy, Body, Bodie.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 3,706 people named Boddie in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 83,310 Americans. That is up 7.2% since 2000, when the Census counted 3,458.

#8,841

rank among US surnames

3,706

people in 2010

1.3

per 100,000 Americans

+7.2%

change since 2000 (was #8,748)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#8,832	Mistry	3,710	83,220
#8,834	Stiltner	3,709	83,242
#8,841	Pinkham	3,706	83,310
#8,843	Colter	3,705	83,332
#8,844	Cusack	3,704	83,355
#8,848	Sweatt	3,703	83,377
#8,850	Dunston	3,702	83,400

Who is named Boddie

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

72% of people named Boddie identified as Black (not Hispanic), 22% as white (not Hispanic) and 3.7% as two or more races.

Black (not Hispanic) 72%
White (not Hispanic) 22%
Two or more races 3.7%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.8%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among Black Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Boddie

Boddie has the Soundex code B300, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B300.

Questions

Where does the surname Boddie come from?: Scottish surname, variant of Boddy, Body, Bodie.
How common is the surname Boddie?: 3,706 people in the United States had the surname Boddie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 83,310 Americans. It ranked 8,841st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Boddie?: In the 2010 Census, 72% of people named Boddie identified as Black (not Hispanic), and 22% as white (not Hispanic).
Is the surname Boddie getting more or less common?: More common. 3,458 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 3,706 in 2010, up 7.2%.