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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • Asturian-Leonese (Bustín) : from a diminutive of Busto.
  • Castilianized form of Basque buztin ‘clay’, hence probably a topographic name for someone who lived on clay ground or possibly a metonymic occupational name for a potter.

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