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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Swiss German : probably from Büchsel, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of small boxes or a woodworker, from a diminutive of Middle High German bühse ‘box’, from Latin buxus ‘box (tree)’.

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