Bodkin Family History
Bodkin Name Meaning
Irish (Galway) and English (Kent): from an unrecorded Middle English personal name Bodekin an Anglo-Norman borrowing of Middle Dutch Bodekin a pet form of the personal name Baldwin . The name was described by McLysaght as the name of one of the ‘Tribes of Galway’ in Ireland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022