BODINEL, BODINIEL. From an estate in Bodm⟨in⟩ anciently possessed by this family; the first part of the name is from bo, bod, a dwelling, and the last part is doubtless that of the owner. C. S. Gilbert writes the name Bodiniel.
BODINNAR, BODDINAR, BORDINNER. From bo-din-ard, the dwelling upon the high hill.
BODKIN. Lower says, "a younger son of the Fitzgeralds of Desmond and Kildare settled in Connaught in the thirteenth century, and obtained, as was not then uncommon, a sobriquet which usurped the place of a surname, and so was handed down. This was Bawdekin, probably 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 baudkin. (See Halliwell.) The Bodkins still use the 'Crom-a-boo' motto of the Fitzgeralds." Ferguson seems to think Bodkin a diminutive from A. S. boda, a messenger. It may also come from body-kin, which would signify a little man; but the name is possibly of Cornish origin; from bod-kyn, the head abode or house; or bod-kein, the house on the promontory.
BODLEAT. From Castle Bodleet, mentioned in William Worcester's Itinerary; from root of Boleit, q. v.
BODMAN, BODMIN. From Bodmin in Trigg hundred (which Tanner, Not. Monas. writes Bodmin or Bodmanna); from bod-min, the stone dwellings. Tonkin renders Bodmin, Bodman, a priest or preacher (bode man).
BODMER. From bod-mer, the great house.
BODREGAN, BODRIGAN, BODRIGHAM, BODRUGAN, BODRUGON. From Bodrigan or Bodrugan, an estate in Gorran, where the family resided temp.
