Bodkin Irish Family Gifts & Heritage
Shop Bodkin Irish family crest gifts, including framed ornament, throw blanket, woven blanket, and accent mug. Choose a keepsake for the home or a thoughtful gift for someone proud to carry the Bodkin name.
About Bodkin Irish Family Gifts & Heritage
Bodkin surname history
The Bodkin surname is Norman in origin, derived from the Anglo-Norman personal name Baudekyn or Baudkin — a diminutive form that was current in the Norman aristocratic world of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The family settled in County Galway and became one of the Fourteen Tribes of Galway, the exclusive group of merchant and landowning families whose names — Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, D'Arcy, Deane, Font, French, Joyce, Kirwan, Lynch, Martin, Morris, and Skerrett — defined the social, commercial, and political life of Galway city from the medieval period through the seventeenth century. The spelling Bodkin has remained stable and the name carries no significant variant forms.