Updated June 9, 2019

Find Baby Names

Family name origins & meanings

  • Italian : metonymic occupational name for a beekeeper, from bugno ‘beehive’, from an unattested Celtic word, būnia.
  • Italian : from bugna ‘dressed stone’, ‘ashlar’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a stonemason or possibly a nickname for someone with a protrusion on the forehead.