Family name origins & meanings
- English : occupational name for a goatherd, Middle English bukkeman (from Old English bucca ‘he-goat’ + mann ‘man’).
- English : occupational name for a scholar or scribe, Middle English bocman (from Old English bōc ‘book’ + mann ‘man’).
- English : possibly also a habitational name, a reduced form of Buckingham or a metathesized form of Bucknam.
