English: from Old English boda ‘messenger’ or
(ge)bod ‘message’ + mann ‘man’, ‘servant’, hence an
occupational name denoting a messenger or the servant of a messenger.German: variant of Bodemann, a habitational name from
Boden near Uelzen, or from the Bode river in the Harz Mountains.Jewish (from Belarus): occupational name for the keeper of a
bathhouse, from Yiddish bod ‘bathhouse’ + man ‘man’.
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