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“remedy” + “battle”
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01 / Meaning & origin
Bodil is a feminine given name documented in Swedish, Danish, Finnish and 1 other language. English Wiktionary traces it to Old Norse Bóthildr, from the components “remedy” + “battle”.
Meaning: “remedy” + “battle”
From Old Norse Bóthildr (> Icelandic Bóthildur), from bót ("remedy") and hildr ("battle"). Name of an 11th century queen of Denmark.
02 / Across borders
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3 countries with published statistics. Language records show cultural connections; they do not measure how common a name is.
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Netherlands, 2021: 14 girls (rank 816).
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03 / By the numbers
Follow the spelling through the years, one published dataset at a time.
1945–2025 Spelling: Bodil
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Source: Statistics Norway · Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Published integer counts retained without rounding.
Per million is unavailable: this source has no matching published total.
| Year | Births | Rank | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 176 | 36 | observed |
| 1946 | 195 | 37 | observed |
| 1947 | 187 | 37 | observed |
| 1948 | 192 | 37 | observed |
| 1949 | 201 | 39 | observed |
| 1950 | 205 | 37 | observed |
| 1951 | 202 | 39 | observed |
| 1952 | 199 | 41 | observed |
| 1953 | 199 | 43 | observed |
| 1954 | 187 | 47 | observed |
| 1955 | 158 | 56 | observed |
| 1956 | 179 | 54 | observed |
| 1957 | 169 | 56 | observed |
| 1958 | 157 | 55 | observed |
| 1959 | 170 | 52 | observed |
| 1960 | 129 | 68 | observed |
| 1961 | 135 | 63 | observed |
| 1962 | 134 | 64 | observed |
| 1963 | 109 | 72 | observed |
| 1964 | 118 | 69 | observed |
| 1965 | 99 | 78 | observed |
| 1966 | 122 | 69 | observed |
| 1967 | 105 | 75 | observed |
| 1968 | 115 | 71 | observed |
| 1969 | 85 | 89 | observed |
| 1970 | 73 | 100 | observed |
| 1971 | 64 | 107 | observed |
| 1972 | 74 | 98 | observed |
| 1973 | 63 | 109 | observed |
| 1974 | 66 | 106 | observed |
| 1975 | 58 | 117 | observed |
| 1976 | 46 | 134 | observed |
| 1977 | 41 | 143 | observed |
| 1978 | 33 | 167 | observed |
| 1979 | 34 | 165 | observed |
| 1980 | 34 | 167 | observed |
| 1981 | 31 | 180 | observed |
| 1982 | 28 | 191 | observed |
| 1983 | 22 | 222 | observed |
| 1984 | 20 | 234 | observed |
| 1985 | 12 | 363 | observed |
| 1986 | 11 | 380 | observed |
| 1987 | 14 | 316 | observed |
| 1988 | 12 | 363 | observed |
| 1989 | 10 | 412 | observed |
| 1990 | 7 | 501 | observed |
| 1991 | 10 | 391 | observed |
| 1992 | 7 | 491 | observed |
| 1993 | 10 | 381 | observed |
| 1994 | 11 | 348 | observed |
| 1995 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1996 | 7 | 466 | observed |
| 1997 | 6 | 489 | observed |
| 1998 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 1999 | 5 | 539 | observed |
| 2000 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2001 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2002 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2003 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2004 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2005 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2006 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2007 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2008 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2009 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2010 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2011 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2012 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2013 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2014 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2015 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2016 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2017 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2018 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2019 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2020 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2021 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2022 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2023 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2024 | no value | no value | not covered |
| 2025 | no value | no value | not covered |
Statistics count the spelling “Bodil” as recorded by the publisher. When a spelling has several independent origins, the counts are not split between them. Counts measure births. Gaps are years without a published value, not zeros.
Rates per million are unavailable for this series because no compatible denominator has been imported.
Retrieved 2026-10-15 · CC-BY-4.0
Read our methodology04 / Through time
Passages quoted verbatim from public-domain reference works. They reflect the scholarship of their time, not current consensus, and may use obsolete spellings.
Bodil— “commanding battle maid”
It is doubtful whether this, or the Welsh _bedaws_, life, gave his name to the Venerable Bæda, but no doubt to himself and his contemporaries it suggested the idea of prayer. There is no doubt, however, in the case of Baudhildur, or Bathilda (the commanding heroine), the daughter of king Nidudr, the lady whom Volundr carried off with him when he fled from her mother’s cruelty. After her was called Bathilda, an Anglo-Saxon slave, who was elevated to be the wife of the second…
It is doubtful whether this, or the Welsh _bedaws_, life, gave his name to the Venerable Bæda, but no doubt to himself and his contemporaries it suggested the idea of prayer. There is no doubt, however, in the case of Baudhildur, or Bathilda (the commanding heroine), the daughter of king Nidudr, the lady whom Volundr carried off with him when he fled from her mother’s cruelty. After her was called Bathilda, an Anglo-Saxon slave, who was elevated to be the wife of the second Hluodwig, and lived so holy a life, and exerted herself so much to obtain the redemption of slaves, that she was canonized, and, as _la reine Bathilde_, was greatly venerated in the believing days of France. Denmark also used this name, having probably taken it from England. There ‘Dronning Bothild,’ the wife of king Ejegod, spread the name among the maidens, so that it passed to Norway as Bodild, Bodil, and even to the contraction Boel.
Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), Part VI, Chapter VI (Descriptive Names), Section II (Command) · Public domain (Project Gutenberg)
People recorded with this given name in Wikidata. Their names may use a different spelling, or include it as a middle or baptismal name.
Danish actress and film director
Christian missionaries (1871–1960)
Danish actress
Danish pornographic actress (1944-1985)
Danish actress (1917–2003)
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06 / Behind the facts
Review status: Source-reported — no editorial review recorded yet. Last data change 2026-10-15.
Norway — published individual first-name birth counts, 1945–2025
Statistics Norway (SSB) · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Netherlands — SVB newborn names from child-benefit administration, 2017–2025
Sociale Verzekeringsbank (SVB), Netherlands · Dutch public-sector database reuse assessment; no standard publisher licence stated · retrieved 2026-10-15
Finland — first given names of living Finnish citizens in Finland or abroad, 2026-08-03
Digital and Population Data Services Agency (DVV), Finland · CC-BY-4.0 · retrieved 2026-10-15
Wiktionary text: CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata: CC0. Commons recordings retain their individual file licences. Complete attribution is available in each group above and alongside each chart.
