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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a southern variant of bocca ‘mouth’, applied as a nickname for someone who had a large, deformed, or otherwise remarkable mouth or for someone who was talkative, indiscreet, or persuasive.
  • Italian : from the Germanic personal name Buco.

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