Bódy

surname · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Bódy is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States 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.

rarermore common
  • BEBelgium1 in 44K(measured from records)
  • CZCzechia1 in 106K
  • 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.

United States (measured from records)

1,954 people, 2010

Sources
29 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)

Belgium

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

Derivation of Bódy: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Bódy
  1. Middle Englishbodi(measured from records)
  2. Old Englishbodiġ“body“body, trunk, chest, torso, height, stature”(measured from records)
  3. Proto-West Germanic*bodag“body“body, trunk”(measured from records)
  4. 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 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Bódy 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 Bódy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,9541 in 170K2K—17
BE Belgium2681 in 44K268—1
CZ Czechia1011 in 106K101——
HU Hungary≈55 est.≈1 in 179K—Bódy29
PL Poland401 in 957K22——

1,954 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); MVČR — living population register 2017; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames). 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(inferred from the name graph)

Bódy is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Polish surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Slovak

    Also written Body, Bödý, Bóďŷ

  • English surname18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, Canada, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German

    Also written Body, Boedy, Bödy, Boďy, Boedý

2 further groups 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(measured from records)

1850190019502000Tivadar Bódy, b. 1868István Bódy, b. 1888László Bódy, b. 1898József Bódy, b. 1922Irén Bódy, b. 1925László Bódy, b. 1928János Bódy, b. 1932Gábor Bódy, b. 1946Magdi Bódy, b. 1953Gergő Bódy, b. 1979

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(measured from records)

Attested in 3 sources across 1 country.

Official registers attesting Bódy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—2#171,683

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Bódy 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 Bódy have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.0 thousand people named Bódy, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Bódy most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Bódy is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Bódy?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,954 people named Bódy in 2010, about 1 in 170 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, “Bódy”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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