Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : habitational name from Bushey in Hertfordshire, so named with an Old English bysce or byxe ‘box’ + hæg ‘enclosure’.
  • Americanized spelling of French Boucher.
  • Americanized spelling of German Büsche (see Busche) or Swiss German Büschi, a variant of Busch.

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