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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : from a diminutive of Bucca.
  • Italian : nickname for someone with curly hair, from buccola ‘curl’.
  • Italian : possibly from Albanian bukura ‘beautiful’, the surname being extremely common in the ancient Albanian-speaking community of Piana degli Albanesi, in Palermo province.

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