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bodnar Name Meaning and History

  1. Ukrainian: occupational name for a cooper, from bodnja ‘tub’.
  2. Polish and Slovak (Bodnár): from Low German, a borrowing of either Böddener ‘cooper’ or Bodner ‘cottager’.
  3. Hungarian (Bodnár): occupational name from the Slavic loanword bodnár ‘cooper’, of German origin.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of bodnar Families in the US in 1920
Number of bodnar families
 62-121
 21-61		 1-20
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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