How common is the surname Bodie?

2,640 people in the United States had the surname Bodie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,949 Americans. It ranked 11,863rd of 162,253 surnames.

Is the surname Bodie getting more or less common?

More common. 2,339 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,640 in 2010, up 13%.

Is Bodie also a first name?

Yes. Bodie is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.

The surname Bodie

A nickname surname, carried by 2,640 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex B300 Also a first name

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bodie is more common than 92.7% of them.

Origin

* As a Scottish surname, variant of Body, Boddy, Boddie. * As a French surname, variant of Bodi, see Beaudin.

Bodie is a nickname surname: from a description or nickname of an ancestor.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 2,640 people named Bodie in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 116,949 Americans. That is up 13% since 2000, when the Census counted 2,339.

#11,863

rank among US surnames

2,640

people in 2010

0.9

per 100,000 Americans

+12.9%

change since 2000 (was #12,213)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#11,856	Stage	2,641	116,905
#11,863	Bodie	2,640	116,949
#11,865	Kopec	2,639	116,993
#11,870	Douthit	2,638	117,038

Who is named Bodie

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

77% of people named Bodie identified as white (not Hispanic), 15% as Black (not Hispanic) and 3.3% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

White (not Hispanic) 77%
Black (not Hispanic) 15%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 3.3%
American Indian and Alaska Native 2.2%
Two or more races 1.4%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.5%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Bodie

Bodie 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 Bodie come from?: * As a Scottish surname, variant of Body, Boddy, Boddie. * As a French surname, variant of Bodi, see Beaudin.
How common is the surname Bodie?: 2,640 people in the United States had the surname Bodie in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 116,949 Americans. It ranked 11,863rd of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bodie?: In the 2010 Census, 77% of people named Bodie identified as white (not Hispanic), and 15% as Black (not Hispanic).
What type of surname is Bodie?: Bodie is a nickname surname, from a description or nickname of an ancestor.
Is the surname Bodie getting more or less common?: More common. 2,339 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 2,640 in 2010, up 13%.
Is Bodie also a first name?: Yes. Bodie is used as a first name as well as a surname; its first-name page has the meaning and how many babies were given it.