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Type Surname (from location)
Usage Anglo-Saxon
Other Forms FormsBodelie, Bodley, Baddeley, Bodleigh, Budleigh, Buddelegh, Bodele
Meaning & History
A habitational name from the parish of Budleigh, near Exeter in Devon or Baddeley Green in Staffordshire. From the Old English budda, meaning "beetle" and leah, meaning "wood" or "clearing", also known as a glade. First appeared in the Book of Doomsday in 1086 as Bodelie.
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Via SurnameDB.com and Ancestry.com via the Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press.