Bodò
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bodò is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Germany than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Either via Old Saxon bodo (“master”) or from Old High German boto (“messenger”); also a short form for given names beginning with Bodo- (Bodowin, Bodomar) or ending with -bod (as Adalbod).
- DEGermany≈1 in 2.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 2.2M
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 32K
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.
- Germany (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 187 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈32,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Germany, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Bodo in DE Germany, US United States, EG Egypt and 3 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(measured from records)
- Old Saxonbodo“master”(measured from records)
- Old High Germanboto“messenger”(measured from records)
Either via Old Saxon bodo (“master”) or from Old High German boto (“messenger”); also a short form for given names beginning with Bodo- (Bodowin, Bodomar) or ending with -bod (as Adalbod)
Sources 3
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Wiktionary
- Nordic Names
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bodò 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DE Germany | #426 | ≈32,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.5K | — | Bodo | 182 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈410 est. | ≈1 in 659K | — | Bodo | 36 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | ≈400 est. | ≈1 in 68K | 687 | — | — |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 345K | — | Bodo | 18 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 32K | 33 | Bodo | 27 |
| US United States | — | 154 | 1 in 2.2M | 671 | Bodo | 187 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈83 est. | ≈1 in 106K | 16 | Bodo | 34 |
| SE Sweden | — | 72 | 1 in 142K | 72 | — | 11 |
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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 Bodò mean, and where does it come from?
- Either via Old Saxon bodo (“master”) or from Old High German boto (“messenger”); also a short form for given names beginning with Bodo- (Bodowin, Bodomar) or ending with -bod (as Adalbod) Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Wiktionary and 1 other source.
- In which country does Bodò have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 32 thousand people named Bodò in Germany, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bodo.
- How common is the name Bodò?
- In the United States, the national register counted 154 people named Bodò in 2020, about 1 in 2.2 million residents.
- How common is Bodò compared with other names?
- In Germany, Bodò is the 426th most common given name of 156,202 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bod%C3%B2The 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, “Bodò” — the 426th most common given name in Germany. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.