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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian (Calabria) : from a Calabrian word meaning ’little ox’, from bue ’ox’ + the diminutive suffix -etto, or, more likely, via French Bouvet, Bouet, with the same meaning.

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