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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from any of numerous places called Buchau (Bavaria) or Bucha (eastern Germany). Alternatively, it may be a topographic name from Middle High German buoche ‘beech tree’.
  • French : perhaps a metonymic occupational name for a woodsman, from buche ‘log’.

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