I guess Dicken's "Artful Dodger" in Oliver Twist was named for his knack at making a living...dodge
1568, origin and sense evolution obscure, perhaps akin to Scottish dodd "to jog." Meaning "person's way of making a living" is from 1842. Baseball's Dodgers so called from 1900, from trolley dodgers, Manhattanites' nickname for Brooklyn residents, in reference to the streetcar lines that criss-crossed the borough.
Then I started thinking of all the -dge (and -ge) ending words in English, and how unusual that is: budge, smudge, lodge, midge, nudge, stooge, fudge...
Anyway, 'dodge' is an interesting word!
-Tim