Boden Family History
Boden Surname Meaning
North German: patronymic from the personal name Bode. German: topographic name for someone living in a valley bottom or the low-lying area of a field Middle High German boden ‘ground bottom’. Compare English Bottom.
Swedish (Bodén): ornamental or habitational name possibly from bod ‘small hut’ or from a placename containing this element; the adjectival suffix -én is a derivative of Latin -enius ‘relating to’. Compare Bodin.
Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadáin ‘descendant of Buadán’ (see Bowden).
English: variant of Bawden.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022