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The surname Bodily

A surname, carried by 1,660 people in the United States.

3 syllables Soundex B340

Bodily: #17,097 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Bodily #17,097, 1,660 people Bodily: #17,097 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Bodily #17,097, 1,660 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Bodily is more common than 89.5% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,660 people named Bodily in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 185,991 Americans. That is up 18% since 2000, when the Census counted 1,409.

#17,097
rank among US surnames
1,660
people in 2010
0.6
per 100,000 Americans
+17.8%
change since 2000 (was #18,209)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#17,097DeNicola1,660185,991
#17,104Prioleau1,659186,103

Who is named Bodily

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

96% of people named Bodily identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

  • White (not Hispanic) 96%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.0%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 0.8%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.6%
  • Two or more races 0.6%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

Useful when a record has your ancestor under another spelling

Surnames that sound like Bodily

Bodily has the Soundex code B340, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code B340.

Questions

How common is the surname Bodily?
1,660 people in the United States had the surname Bodily in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 185,991 Americans. It ranked 17,097th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Bodily?
In the 2010 Census, 96% of people named Bodily identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.0% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Is the surname Bodily getting more or less common?
More common. 1,409 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,660 in 2010, up 18%.