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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • German : habitational name for someone from a place so named in Brandenburg or from a shortened form of any of several compound names with Butzen.
  • German : in Swabia possibly a topographic name from Middle High German bütze ‘well’, ‘puddle’ (from Latin puteus), with -en indicating the oblique case (bī dem butzen).

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