# Bodin (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/bodin/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from French.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | place, taken from where an ancestor lived or came from |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 2,129 |
| US rank (2010) | 14,113 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 145,019 people |
| Change since 2000 | +1.8% (2,092 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As an English and French surname of Norman origin, from Old French Bodin, a pet form of Bodo, borrowed from Germanic names containing the element *budô (“messenger”). Compare Beaudin. * As a Swedish surname, from the noun bod (“small hut”), compare Bodeen, Boden. * As a German surname, related to sense 1 above, and also from the place Boddin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Bodin in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 94% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 1.5% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 2.7% |
| Two or more races | 1.1% |

## Similar surnames

Bowden, Bodine, Boden, Boutin, Bodden, Boyden, Batten, Button, Beaudoin, Beaton, Bethune, Batton.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.