Bodekin — Family Name, Records and Arms

Arms linked to Bodkin and its spellings were granted to individual families; our heraldry team traces which line they belonged to.

Family name meaning

Bodekin belongs to the Bodkin family of names, which has Irish roots. The name is generally explained as “Little Baldwin”.

Bodekin adds “e” to Bodkin, a small change that crept in as the name was written down. Spellings drifted because names were written down by ear in parish books, tax rolls and passenger lists. Other spellings include Bodkins.

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