Bôdy
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Bôdy is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China 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.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 78K(inferred from the name graph)
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 87K
- USUnited States1 in 170K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 249 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
≈21,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Belgium
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 US United States, AU Australia, GB United Kingdom and 1 more and Boedy in CN China.
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”)).
Sources 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 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bôdy 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 65K | — | Boedy | 4 |
| US United States | 1,954 | 1 in 170K | 2K | Body | 249 |
| FR France | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 98 | — | 2 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 87K | listed | Body | 124 |
| AU Australia | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 1 | Body | 71 |
| BE Belgium | 268 | 1 in 44K | 268 | — | 22 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 59K | — | Body | 42 |
| GA Gabon | ≈31 est. | ≈1 in 72K | 1 | — | — |
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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative). 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 Bôdy 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.
- Is Bôdy a male or female name?
- Bôdy is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Bôdy have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 21 thousand people named Bôdy in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled boedy.
- Where is Bôdy most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bôdy is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Bôdy?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,954 people named Bôdy in 2010, about 1 in 170 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%B4dyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Bôdy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.