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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German (Bühner) : habitational name for someone from any of three places called Bühne (in Westphalia, the Harz Mountains, and Altmark).
  • German (Bühner) : in the south, possibly a topographic name from Bühne ‘scaffold’, ‘barn loft’.

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