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The BODKIN surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 1,849 14731 0.001 7
United States (1880 census) 599 8337 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +1250 -6394 0 -5
Other Countries
Australia 56 23286 0 3
United Kingdom 343 11654 0.001 7
Top States for BODKIN by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
New York 194 10505 0.001 10
Pennsylvania 112 13802 0.001 9
Virginia 112 6886 0.002 16
Florida 107 16894 0.001 7
Indiana 107 7249 0.002 18
Top States for BODKIN by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
West Virginia 99 2473 0.005 55
Kentucky 75 5724 0.002 19
Idaho 23 7991 0.002 18
Indiana 107 7249 0.002 18
Virginia 112 6886 0.002 16

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called BODKIN live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called BODKIN represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called BODKIN in New York than any other state, but you are more likely to find a BODKIN by picking someone at random in West Virginia than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of BODKIN

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Diminutive

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the BODKIN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the BODKIN surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of BODKIN in the USA

Classification Total Percent
Black/African American 61 3.3
White (Hispanic) 47 2.54
Mixed Race 25 1.35
White (Caucasian) 1,703 92.1
Asian/Pacific Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the BODKIN surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of BODKIN in historical publications

BODKIN. A younger son of the Fitzgeralds of Desmond a'nd Kildare settled in Connaughtin the XIII. cent., and obtained, as was not then uncoimnou, a sobriquet which usurped the place of a surname, and so Avas ham.led down. This was Bawdekin, proliably from his having affected to dress in the costly material of silk and tissue of gold, so popular in that age under the name of haudldn. (See Halliw.) The Bodking still use the "Crom-a-boo" motto of the Pitzgeralds. The Bokckin of the II.R, is probably from a different source.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to BODKIN

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as BODKIN.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for BODKIN

The following words are slight variants of BODKIN that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.