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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • North German : metonymic occupational name for a cooper, from Middle Low German budde ‘tub’, ‘vat’. Compare Buettner.
  • German and Danish : from a derivative of the Germanic personal name Bodo, cognate with English Budd.
  • English : variant spelling of Budd.

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