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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : topographic name for someone who lived by a box tree, from Middle High German buhs (see Buchs) + boum ‘tree’.
  • Jewish (Ashkenazic) : ornamental name from German Buchsbaum ‘box tree’ (see 1).

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