Botho

Bodo (variants Botho, Boto, Boddo, Potho, Boda, Puoto, etc.) is an Old High German name, also adopted in Modern German. It is in origin a short name or hypocorism for Germanic names with a first element Bod-, Puot-, reflecting the verbal root beud- "to bid, command". As a monothematic name, Old High German Boto, Old Saxon Bodo, could mean "lord, commander" or alternatively "messenger" (c.f. Old English bod "command; message", boda "messenger, angel"). Full dithematic names with this first element (attested for the medieval period but not surviving into modern use) included Bodegisil, Bothad, Bodomar, Boderad, Poterich, Bodirid, Butwin, Potelfrid, Botolf, Podalolf, Bodenolf.
The Anglo-Saxon cognate was Beda (West Saxon Bīeda, Northumbrian Bǣda, Anglian Bēda).
Middle Ages
Bodo (deacon), 9th-century German deacon who converted to Judaism, assuming the name of Eleazar
Bodo VII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1375-1455)
Bodo VIII, Count of Stolberg-Wernigerode (1467-1538)
Early Modern
Bodo Otto (1711–1787), a Senior Surgeon of the Continental Army during the American Revolution
Modern
Bodo Bittner, West German bobsledder
Bodo Ferl (born 1959), East German retired bobsledder
Bodo Hell (born 1943), Austrian writer
Bodo Hombach (born 1952), German politician
Bodo Illgner (born 1967), German former football goalkeeper
Bodo Lafferentz (1897–1974), Nazi and high-ranking SS officer
Bodo Linnhoff (born 1948), chemical engineer
Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein (1927–2008), German politician
Bodo Ramelow (born 1956), German politician
Bodo Rudwaleit (born 1957), German former football goalkeeper
Bodo Schmidt (born 1967), German football coach and former player
Botho Strauß (b. 1944), German playwright
Bodo Thyssen (1918–2004), German industrialist and medical doctor
Bodo Tümmler (born 1943), German former middle distance runner

Bodo

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Botho Henning Elster	1894	German soldier
2	Botho Strauß	1944	German playwright, novelist, and essayist
3	Botho zu Eulenburg	1831	Prussian politician
4	Botho Sigwart zu Eulenburg	1884	German composer
5	Botho Kollberg	1898	German General and Knight's Cross recipient
6	Botho Lucas	1923	German composer
7	Botho von Hülsen	1815	German intendant (1815-1886)
8	Botho Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Hohenstein	1927	German noble
9	Botho Engelien	1938
10	Botho Graef	1857	German art historian and archaeologist
11	Botho von Frantzius	1898	German General and Knight's Cross recipients
12	Botho zu Stolberg-Roßla	1850
13	Botho Heinrich zu Eulenburg	1804
14	Botho von La Chevallerie	1898	German officer and Knight's Cross recipient
15	Botho Hoefer	1880
16	Botho von Wedel	1862	German diplomat
17	Botho Walldorf	1945	German writer
18	Botho Brachmann	1930	German historian of modern age and archivist
19	Botho Coreth	1871
20	Botho Jung	1927	German television presenter and radio host
21	Botho Laserstein	1901	German judge
22	Botho von Schwerin	1866	German chemist
23	Botho Makubate	1990	Badminton player
24	Botho Gamp	1894	German graphic designer and painter
25	Botho Höfer	1880	German production designer (1880-1958)
26	Botho Bauch	1897	Polish civil servant and jurist
27	Botho Mulert	1883	German jurist