Bodin
Bodin was given to 40 boys in 2025, #3,042 among boys’ names; 354 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Bodin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Bodin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Bodin is “an unknown-gender given name.” Its etymology gives the sense “messenger” (*budô).
As an English and French surname of Norman origin, from Old French Bodin, a pet form of Bodo, borrowed from Germanic names containing the element *budô (“messenger”). Compare Beaudin.
As a Swedish surname, from the noun bod (“small hut”), compare Bodeen, Boden.
As a German surname, related to sense 1 above, and also from the place Boddin in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Bodin?
#3,042 among boys’ names, 2025
Bodin rose from #7,123 in 2015 to #3,042 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 5.7 to 23.4 per million.
40 babies in 2025, the peak
Bodin peaked in 2025, when 40 boys were given it, #3,042 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 27 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 40 | #3,042 | 23.4 |
| 2024 | 27 | #3,995 | 15.7 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,687 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,866 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 29 | #3,748 | 16.6 |
| 2020 | 24 | #4,150 | 13.9 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,817 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 15 | #5,805 | 8.3 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,555 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,152 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,123 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,223 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 5 | #12,377 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 7 | #9,827 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,850 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,390 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 17 | #5,351 | 8.6 |
| 2008 | 6 | #11,227 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,150 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,505 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 8 | #8,375 | 4.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,028 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #11,076 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 7 | #8,552 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Bodin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Bodin has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Bodin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Bodin, and how old are they?
An estimated 351 Americans named Bodin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 237 people named Bodin (0 women and girls, 237 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 202 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,398 babies since 1880, Bodin is the third most given (5.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 437 babies (9.2%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Bodin
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Bodin and names like it
- Compare Bodin and BodenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sBodin peaked in 2025.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Bodin since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Bodin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Bodin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with BMost given first.