Bode Family History
- Bode Name Meaning
- Dutch and German: occupational name for a messenger or representative, Dutch bode, Middle Low German bode. A bode was a medieval official with a variety of different functions. German and Danish: from the North German personal name Bodo, a derivative of Old Saxon bodo ‘messenger’. North German and Dutch: a topographic name from Middle Low German bode, bude ‘booth’, ‘small house’. Danish: habitational name from a place named Bode.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 266,153 Historical Documents with Bode on Ancestry
- 153,195 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 30,940 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,597 Military Records
- 12,439 Immigration Records
- 55,982 Member Trees
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Number of Bode families
 16 - 30  6 - 15 |
 1 - 5  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Bode census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the Canadian Passenger Lists
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from 1881 CA Census Data
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