Irish: from Bowdekyn, an English pet form of Baldwin,
a Norman name well established in Ireland, described by McLysaght as
the name of one of the ‘Tribes of Galway’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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