Boden

4,138 people in the United States were counted with the surname Boden in the 2020 census, making it the 7,713th most common in the country. That is about one person in 72,200.

By the numbers

People: 4,138
Rank: 7,713th
How common: 1 in 72,200
Per 100,000: 1.4

Where the name comes from

As a north/Low German surname, derived from the personal name Bode, from the noun meaning "messenger" (Old Saxon bodo).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Boden described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.3%
Hispanic or Latino 3.3%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Boden

Falk Boden (born 1960)East German cyclist
Margaret Boden (1936–2025)British academic
Jens Boden (born 1978)German speed skater
Samuel Boden (1826–1882)British chess player
Alana Boden (born 1997)English actress

People named Boden with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Boden

Also a first name

Boden has been given to 4,805 American babies as a first name since 1987, peaking in 2023. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.