Boden Genealogy and Boden Family History Information

Boden Name Meaning North German: patronymic from the personal name Bode, or from a short form of any of the many compound names with the element Boden.

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 name, possibly from bod ‘small hut’ + the common surname suffix -én, a derivative of Latin -enius ‘descendant of’.

English: according to Reaney, a late variant of Baldwin. Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Buadáin.