Family name origins & meanings
- Czech : from a pet form of the personal name Budislav.
- Czech and Sorbian : nickname from bucek ‘chubby’.
- Czech and Slovak (Buček) : topographic name from a diminutive of buk ‘beech tree’.
- Slovenian (Buček) : nickname from buček ‘comic or ludicrous fellow’. It may also be derived from an identical dialect word meaning ‘small jug-like vessel’.