Bódÿ
surname · Latin script
Bódÿ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Middle English bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake.
- NLNetherlands1 in 785K(measured from records)
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Netherlands (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 40 (measured from records)
- 1 in 785K (inferred from the name graph)
22 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Body in MX Mexico, ES Spain, PR Puerto Rico and 1 more and Bődý in AR Argentina.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Middle Englishbodi(measured from records)
- Old Englishbodiġ“body“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”(measured from records)
- Proto-West Germanic*bodag“body“body, trunk”(measured from records)
- Proto-Indo-European*bʰewdʰ-“to be awake“to be awake, observe”(measured from records)
From Middle English bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, observe”). Cognate with Old High German botah (whence Swabian Bottich (“body, torso”)).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A dictionary of surnames
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bódÿ counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL Netherlands | 22 | 1 in 785K | 22 | — | 1 |
| MX Mexico | — | — | — | Body | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | — | 20 | Body | 16 |
| PR Puerto Rico | — | — | — | Body | 1 |
| CO Colombia | — | — | — | Body | 8 |
| AR Argentina | — | — | 28 | Bődý | 20 |
| US United States | — | — | 2K | — | 40 |
22 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bódÿ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Middle English bodi, bodiȝ, from Old English bodiġ (“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”), from Proto-West Germanic *bodag (“body, trunk”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake… Recorded by A dictionary of surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Bódÿ have the most bearers?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 22 people named Bódÿ, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Bódÿ most common?
- Bódÿ is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 785 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bódÿ?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 22 people named Bódÿ, about 1 in 785 thousand residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bódÿ”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.