Bode Family History
- Bode Name Meaning
- Dutch and German: occupational name for a messenger or representative, Dutch bode, Middle Low German bode. A bode was a medieval official with a variety of different functions. German and Danish: from the North German personal name Bodo, a derivative of Old Saxon bodo ‘messenger’. North German and Dutch: a topographic name from Middle Low German bode, bude ‘booth’, ‘small house’. Danish: habitational name from a place named Bode.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 286,815 Historical Documents with Bode on Ancestry
- 152,730 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 30,939 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,594 Military Records
- 12,439 Immigration Records
- 77,113 Member Trees
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Number of Bode families
 53 - 103  18 - 52 |
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Bode families
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16 - 30 6 - 15 |
1 - 5 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Bode families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bode census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Bode census records
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- All Bode
- 93
- Confederate
- 17
- Union
- 76
from the Civil War Service Records
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