Böde

Name: Böde: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-10-13
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surname · Latin script

Böde is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Verb from Middle English boden, from Old English bodian (“announce, foretell”), from Proto-Germanic *budōną (“to proclaim, announce, lere, instruct”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake,.

DEGermany≈1 in 4.6K(inferred from the name graph)
NLNetherlands1 in 12K
TGTogo≈1 in 23K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Böde itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

: Germany (inferred from the name graph)
Record sources: 337 (measured from records)
: ≈1 in 4.6K (inferred from the name graph)

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Bode in US United States, DE Germany, GB United Kingdom and 2 more.

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

Böde

Middle Englishboden(measured from records)
Old Englishbodian“announce“announce, foretell”(measured from records)
Proto-Germanic*budōną“to proclaim“to proclaim, announce, lere, instruct”(measured from records)
Proto-Indo-European*bʰewdʰ-“to be awake“to be awake, perceive fully”(measured from records)
Middle Englishbod(measured from records)
Old Englishbod(measured from records)
Proto-Germanic*budą“message“message, offer”(measured from records)

Verb from Middle English boden, from Old English bodian (“announce, foretell”), from Proto-Germanic *budōną (“to proclaim, announce, lere, instruct”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake, perceive fully”). See bid. Noun from Middle English bod, from Old English bod, from Proto-Germanic *budą (“message, offer”). Since 1740 also a shortening of forebode.

Cited for this meaning 5

A Dictionary of English Surnames
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Wiktionary
Nordic Names

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where the surname Böde is found

Böde 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.

Where Böde is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
DE Germany	#337	≈18,000 est.	≈1 in 4.6K	—	Bode	162
NG Nigeria	—	≈7,700 est.	≈1 in 30K	—	Bode	65
US United States	—	5,824	1 in 57K	5.9K	Bode	337
NL Netherlands	—	1,400	1 in 12K	1.4K	Bode	55
GB United Kingdom	—	≈910 est.	≈1 in 76K	listed	Bode	88
TG Togo	—	≈370 est.	≈1 in 23K	1	—	2
DK Denmark	—	149	1 in 39K	149	—	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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Journal Officiel — Liste definitive des candidats (legislatives 2024). 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).

Other names spelled this way

Böde is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Hungarian surname3 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Nigeria, Ukraine
Also written Bode, Bőde
Croatian surname14 spellings in the group
Most recorded in United States, Croatia
Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Slovenian
Also written Bode, Боде, Bõde, Bodé, Bodø
French surname5 spellings in the group
Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Netherlands
Also written Bode, Bodé, Bőde
a separate name5 spellings in the group
Also written Bọ̀dé, Bodé, Bodê, Bode

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name

Dániel Bödeb. 1986HUassociation footballer

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Böde under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Böde mean, and where does it come from?: Verb from Middle English boden, from Old English bodian (“announce, foretell”), from Proto-Germanic *budōną (“to proclaim, announce, lere, instruct”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewdʰ- (“to be awake,… Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 3 other sources.
Which countries have the most people with the surname Böde?: Mondonomo estimates about 18 thousand people named Böde in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bode. After it come Nigeria, United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
How common is the name Böde?: In the United States, the national register counted 5,824 people named Böde in 2010, about 1 in 57 thousand residents.
How common is Böde compared with other names?: In Germany, Böde is the 337th most common surname of 765,306 surnames recorded there.

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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 2026-10-13 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, “Böde” — the 337th most common surname in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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