Bodmer
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from Boden 'ground, floor, soil'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈbɑdmɝ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Bodmer is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Switzerland than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 638K(measured from records)
- CHSwitzerland1 in 7.2K
- TCTurks & Caicos Islands≈1 in 37K
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.
- Switzerland (measured from records)
- Sources
- 180 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.2K (inferred from the name graph)
1,173 people, 2024
Highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from Boden 'ground, floor, soil'
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Where in the world(measured from records)
Bodmer 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | #452 | 1,173 | 1 in 7.2K | 1.2K | Bodmer | 50 |
| US United States | — | 521 | 1 in 638K | 700 | Bodmer | 180 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈510 est. | ≈1 in 157K | — | Bodmer | 56 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Bodmer | 21 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 537K | listed | Bodmer | 52 |
| GT Guatemala | — | ≈92 est. | ≈1 in 186K | — | Bodmer | 2 |
| IE Ireland | — | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 158K | — | Bodmer | 1 |
| TC Turks & Caicos Islands | — | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 37K | — | Bodmer | 1 |
1,173 people counted by BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames), 2024. 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 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); the bbc-pronouncing-dictionary-british-names register. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Johann Jakob Bodmerb. 1698CHSwiss-German author, academic, critic and poet (1698–1783)
- Johann Georg Bodmerb. 1786CHSwiss inventor
- Gottlieb Bodmerb. 1804CHGerman artist (1804-1837)
- Karl Bodmerb. 1809CHSwiss-French artist (1809–1893)
- Paul Bodmerb. 1886CHSwiss artist (1886-1983)
- Frederick Bodmerb. 1894CHSwiss linguist (1894-1960)
- Martin Bodmerb. 1899CHSwiss academic (1899-1971)
- Walter Bodmerb. 1936GBGerman-born British human geneticist (born 1936)
- Mathieu Bodmerb. 1982FRFrench footballer (born 1982)
- Pascal Bodmerb. 1991DEski jumper
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 15 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.2K | #989 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 700 | #34,781 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 521 | #41,728 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 484 | #42,217 |
| GB United Kingdom | BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bodmer mean, and where does it come from?
- from Boden 'ground, floor, soil' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- How do you pronounce Bodmer?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈbɑdmɝ/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Bodmer have the most bearers?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted about 1.2 thousand people named Bodmer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled bodmer.
- Where is Bodmer most common?
- Bodmer is densest in Switzerland, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.2 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bodmer?
- In Switzerland, the national register counted 1,173 people named Bodmer in 2024, about 1 in 7.2 thousand residents.
- How common is Bodmer compared with other names?
- In Switzerland, Bodmer is the 452nd most common surname of 127,759 surnames recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/bodmerThe 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, “Bodmer” — the 452nd most common surname in Switzerland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.